From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [PATCH 12 of 12] This patch adds a lock ordering rule to avoid a potential deadlock when Message-Id: In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:51:28 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Nick Piggin , Jack Steiner , Peter Zijlstra , kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Kanoj Sarcar , Roland Dreier , Steve Wise , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Avi Kivity , linux-mm@kvack.org, Robin Holt , general@lists.openfabrics.org, Hugh Dickins , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Rusty Russell List-ID: # HG changeset patch # User Andrea Arcangeli # Date 1208872187 -7200 # Node ID e847039ee2e815088661933b7195584847dc7540 # Parent 128d705f38c8a774ac11559db445787ce6e91c77 This patch adds a lock ordering rule to avoid a potential deadlock when multiple mmap_sems need to be locked. Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ * * ->i_mutex (generic_file_buffered_write) * ->mmap_sem (fault_in_pages_readable->do_page_fault) + * + * When taking multiple mmap_sems, one should lock the lowest-addressed + * one first proceeding on up to the highest-addressed one. * * ->i_mutex * ->i_alloc_sem (various) -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org