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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-08-11 11:19:20 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-08-11 11:19:20 +0200 |
commit | 8067794bec1cc5de1431102cf0a6a1c7ce75cd85 (patch) | |
tree | 2bfa0fba060d253bbd972282b29a3d60c3e7cb7f /include/linux/rmap.h | |
parent | 7ab6af7ab69df8c9c5fbc380004fb81187742096 (diff) | |
parent | 796aadeb1b2db9b5d463946766c5bbfd7717158c (diff) |
Merge branch 'linus' into x86/x2apic
Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/genapic_64.c
Manual merge:
arch/x86/kernel/genx2apic_uv_x.c
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/rmap.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/rmap.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/rmap.h b/include/linux/rmap.h index 1383692ac5b..69407f85e10 100644 --- a/include/linux/rmap.h +++ b/include/linux/rmap.h @@ -26,6 +26,14 @@ */ struct anon_vma { spinlock_t lock; /* Serialize access to vma list */ + /* + * NOTE: the LSB of the head.next is set by + * mm_take_all_locks() _after_ taking the above lock. So the + * head must only be read/written after taking the above lock + * to be sure to see a valid next pointer. The LSB bit itself + * is serialized by a system wide lock only visible to + * mm_take_all_locks() (mm_all_locks_mutex). + */ struct list_head head; /* List of private "related" vmas */ }; |