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authorMichel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>2020-06-08 21:33:54 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-06-09 09:39:14 -0700
commitc1e8d7c6a7a682e1405e3e242d32fc377fd196ff (patch)
treeef02402b77990834fbb5bdb1f146fc0393cc8987 /Documentation/admin-guide/mm
parent3e4e28c5a8f01ee4174d639e36ed155ade489a6f (diff)
mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments
Convert comments that reference mmap_sem to reference mmap_lock instead. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up linux-next leftovers] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/lockaphore/lock/, per Vlastimil] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: more linux-next fixups, per Michel] Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-13-walken@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide/mm')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst2
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst
index 8463f5538fda..067a90a1499c 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst
@@ -364,19 +364,19 @@ follows:
2) for querying the policy, we do not need to take an extra reference on the
target task's task policy nor vma policies because we always acquire the
- task's mm's mmap_sem for read during the query. The set_mempolicy() and
- mbind() APIs [see below] always acquire the mmap_sem for write when
+ task's mm's mmap_lock for read during the query. The set_mempolicy() and
+ mbind() APIs [see below] always acquire the mmap_lock for write when
installing or replacing task or vma policies. Thus, there is no possibility
of a task or thread freeing a policy while another task or thread is
querying it.
3) Page allocation usage of task or vma policy occurs in the fault path where
- we hold them mmap_sem for read. Again, because replacing the task or vma
- policy requires that the mmap_sem be held for write, the policy can't be
+ we hold them mmap_lock for read. Again, because replacing the task or vma
+ policy requires that the mmap_lock be held for write, the policy can't be
freed out from under us while we're using it for page allocation.
4) Shared policies require special consideration. One task can replace a
- shared memory policy while another task, with a distinct mmap_sem, is
+ shared memory policy while another task, with a distinct mmap_lock, is
querying or allocating a page based on the policy. To resolve this
potential race, the shared policy infrastructure adds an extra reference
to the shared policy during lookup while holding a spin lock on the shared
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst
index 0bf49d7313ad..1dc2d5f823b4 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ memory ranges) provides two primary functionalities:
The real advantage of userfaults if compared to regular virtual memory
management of mremap/mprotect is that the userfaults in all their
operations never involve heavyweight structures like vmas (in fact the
-``userfaultfd`` runtime load never takes the mmap_sem for writing).
+``userfaultfd`` runtime load never takes the mmap_lock for writing).
Vmas are not suitable for page- (or hugepage) granular fault tracking
when dealing with virtual address spaces that could span