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| author | KOSAKI Motohiro | 2011-07-25 17:12:10 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2011-07-25 20:57:08 -0700 |
| commit | c27fe4c8942d3ca715986f79cc26f44608d7d9fb (patch) | |
| tree | d954d0417c941f5e51cf029608311ef04acd9575 /include/linux | |
| parent | 6c6d5280431544e4036886ea74e3334a98bc5f96 (diff) | |
pagewalk: add locking-rule comments
Originally, walk_hugetlb_range() didn't require a caller take any lock.
But commit d33b9f45bd ("mm: hugetlb: fix hugepage memory leak in
walk_page_range") changed its rule. Because it added find_vma() call in
walk_hugetlb_range().
Any locking-rule change commit should write a doc too.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: clarify comment]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Hiroyuki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyuki@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 6321e840e21d..3c5505a3bc49 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -911,6 +911,8 @@ unsigned long unmap_vmas(struct mmu_gather *tlb, * @pte_entry: if set, called for each non-empty PTE (4th-level) entry * @pte_hole: if set, called for each hole at all levels * @hugetlb_entry: if set, called for each hugetlb entry + * *Caution*: The caller must hold mmap_sem() if @hugetlb_entry + * is used. * * (see walk_page_range for more details) */ |