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| author | Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> | 2011-05-24 17:12:08 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-05-25 08:39:18 -0700 |
| commit | 6111e4ca6829a0e8b092b8e5eeb6b5366091f29c (patch) | |
| tree | 12d0f6bf4dad72e6842b8d68b72f24fd23bb236c /mm/rmap.c | |
| parent | 25aeeb046e695c3093a86aa9386128ffb3b1bc32 (diff) | |
mm: improve page_lock_anon_vma() comment
A slightly more verbose comment to go along with the trickery in
page_lock_anon_vma().
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/rmap.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/rmap.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c index c6044761617..cc140811af5 100644 --- a/mm/rmap.c +++ b/mm/rmap.c @@ -320,8 +320,22 @@ void __init anon_vma_init(void) } /* - * Getting a lock on a stable anon_vma from a page off the LRU is - * tricky: page_lock_anon_vma rely on RCU to guard against the races. + * Getting a lock on a stable anon_vma from a page off the LRU is tricky! + * + * Since there is no serialization what so ever against page_remove_rmap() + * the best this function can do is return a locked anon_vma that might + * have been relevant to this page. + * + * The page might have been remapped to a different anon_vma or the anon_vma + * returned may already be freed (and even reused). + * + * All users of this function must be very careful when walking the anon_vma + * chain and verify that the page in question is indeed mapped in it + * [ something equivalent to page_mapped_in_vma() ]. + * + * Since anon_vma's slab is DESTROY_BY_RCU and we know from page_remove_rmap() + * that the anon_vma pointer from page->mapping is valid if there is a + * mapcount, we can dereference the anon_vma after observing those. */ struct anon_vma *page_lock_anon_vma(struct page *page) { |