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From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Subject: [patch 4/6] mm: comment mmap_sem / lock_page lockorder
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:44:32 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061013143556.15438.35419.sendpatchset@linux.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061013143516.15438.8802.sendpatchset@linux.site>

Add a few more examples to the mmap_sem / lock_page ordering.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>

Index: linux-2.6/mm/filemap.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/filemap.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/filemap.c
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ generic_file_direct_IO(int rw, struct ki
  *        ->mapping->tree_lock	(arch-dependent flush_dcache_mmap_lock)
  *
  *  ->mmap_sem
- *    ->lock_page		(access_process_vm)
+ *    ->lock_page		(page fault, sys_mmap, access_process_vm)
  *
  *  ->mmap_sem
  *    ->i_mutex			(msync)
Index: linux-2.6/mm/rmap.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/rmap.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/rmap.c
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
  * taken together; in truncation, i_mutex is taken outermost.
  *
  * mm->mmap_sem
- *   page->flags PG_locked (lock_page)
+ *   page->flags PG_locked (lock_page, eg from pagefault)
  *     mapping->i_mmap_lock
  *       anon_vma->lock
  *         mm->page_table_lock or pte_lock

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-13 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-13 16:43 [rfc] buffered write deadlock fix Nick Piggin
2006-10-13 16:44 ` [patch 1/6] mm: revert "generic_file_buffered_write(): handle zero length iovec segments" Nick Piggin, Andrew Morton
2006-10-13 16:44 ` [patch 2/6] mm: revert "generic_file_buffered_write(): deadlock on vectored write" Nick Piggin, Andrew Morton
2006-10-13 16:44 ` [patch 3/6] mm: generic_file_buffered_write cleanup Nick Piggin, Andrew Morton
2006-10-13 16:44 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-10-13 16:44 ` [patch 5/6] mm: debug write deadlocks Nick Piggin
2006-10-13 16:44 ` [patch 6/6] mm: fix pagecache " Nick Piggin, Andrew Morton
2006-10-13 22:14   ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-14  4:19     ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-14  4:30       ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-15 11:35       ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-10-14  5:04   ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-15 11:37   ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-10-15 11:56     ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-15 13:51       ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-10-15 14:19         ` SPAM: " Nick Piggin
2006-10-15 15:47           ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-10-15 15:57             ` RRe: " Nick Piggin
2006-10-15 16:13               ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-10-16 15:24                 ` pagefault_disable (was Re: [patch 6/6] mm: fix pagecache write deadlocks) Nick Piggin
2006-10-16 16:05                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-10-16 16:12                     ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-18 14:25   ` [patch 6/6] mm: fix pagecache write deadlocks Chris Mason

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