From: Nick Piggin Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 06:29:10 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] mm: more commenting on lock ordering X-Git-Tag: v2.6.19-rc3~50 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=82591e6ea234762eeaa8b2337fe060ed438c18dc;p=linux-2.6 [PATCH] mm: more commenting on lock ordering Clarify lockorder comments now that sys_msync dropps mmap_sem before calling do_fsync. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c index 57faa8d120..8558732e85 100644 --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ generic_file_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov, * ->mmap_sem * ->lock_page (access_process_vm) * - * ->mmap_sem - * ->i_mutex (msync) + * ->i_mutex (generic_file_buffered_write) + * ->mmap_sem (fault_in_pages_readable->do_page_fault) * * ->i_mutex * ->i_alloc_sem (various) diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c index a9136d8b75..d8a842a586 100644 --- a/mm/rmap.c +++ b/mm/rmap.c @@ -21,27 +21,21 @@ * Lock ordering in mm: * * inode->i_mutex (while writing or truncating, not reading or faulting) - * inode->i_alloc_sem - * - * When a page fault occurs in writing from user to file, down_read - * of mmap_sem nests within i_mutex; in sys_msync, i_mutex nests within - * down_read of mmap_sem; i_mutex and down_write of mmap_sem are never - * taken together; in truncation, i_mutex is taken outermost. - * - * mm->mmap_sem - * page->flags PG_locked (lock_page) - * mapping->i_mmap_lock - * anon_vma->lock - * mm->page_table_lock or pte_lock - * zone->lru_lock (in mark_page_accessed, isolate_lru_page) - * swap_lock (in swap_duplicate, swap_info_get) - * mmlist_lock (in mmput, drain_mmlist and others) - * mapping->private_lock (in __set_page_dirty_buffers) - * inode_lock (in set_page_dirty's __mark_inode_dirty) - * sb_lock (within inode_lock in fs/fs-writeback.c) - * mapping->tree_lock (widely used, in set_page_dirty, - * in arch-dependent flush_dcache_mmap_lock, - * within inode_lock in __sync_single_inode) + * inode->i_alloc_sem (vmtruncate_range) + * mm->mmap_sem + * page->flags PG_locked (lock_page) + * mapping->i_mmap_lock + * anon_vma->lock + * mm->page_table_lock or pte_lock + * zone->lru_lock (in mark_page_accessed, isolate_lru_page) + * swap_lock (in swap_duplicate, swap_info_get) + * mmlist_lock (in mmput, drain_mmlist and others) + * mapping->private_lock (in __set_page_dirty_buffers) + * inode_lock (in set_page_dirty's __mark_inode_dirty) + * sb_lock (within inode_lock in fs/fs-writeback.c) + * mapping->tree_lock (widely used, in set_page_dirty, + * in arch-dependent flush_dcache_mmap_lock, + * within inode_lock in __sync_single_inode) */ #include