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| author | Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de> | 2011-08-17 16:14:01 +0000 |
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| committer | Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de> | 2011-08-17 16:14:01 +0000 |
| commit | 94bd217e2d683719ab21a4ac117d8a1b91cbedc9 (patch) | |
| tree | f2d506818cc1643ca816f609518ab5d1cdb28e66 /Documentation/vm/locking | |
| parent | 5dd72f12df00cbabc16de770b79b17ced63138be (diff) | |
| parent | 93ee7a9340d64f20295aacc3fb6a22b759323280 (diff) | |
Merge commit 'v3.1-rc2' into HEAD
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/locking | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/locking b/Documentation/vm/locking index 25fadb44876..f61228bd639 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/locking +++ b/Documentation/vm/locking @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ in some cases it is not really needed. Eg, vm_start is modified by expand_stack(), it is hard to come up with a destructive scenario without having the vmlist protection in this case. -The page_table_lock nests with the inode i_mmap_lock and the kmem cache +The page_table_lock nests with the inode i_mmap_mutex and the kmem cache c_spinlock spinlocks. This is okay, since the kmem code asks for pages after dropping c_spinlock. The page_table_lock also nests with pagecache_lock and pagemap_lru_lock spinlocks, and no code asks for memory with these locks |