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authorTomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>2012-11-16 11:41:51 +0200
committerTomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>2012-11-16 11:41:51 +0200
commit3c3dd225819112e56554162c6b37e61a31924e0c (patch)
tree5bcd3a63010af2cd5bb946b5af21ef27f1dcfe3c /mm/mempolicy.c
parenta915d4ca24b814daee9cddbc42cd41f59fe4fa8f (diff)
parent3d70f8c617a436c7146ecb81df2265b4626dfe89 (diff)
Merge tag 'v3.7-rc4'
Merge Linux 3.7-rc4 to get fixes for CMA.
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mempolicy.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/mempolicy.c5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 0b78fb9ea65b..d04a8a54c294 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -1536,9 +1536,8 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_mbind(compat_ulong_t start, compat_ulong_t len,
*
* Returns effective policy for a VMA at specified address.
* Falls back to @task or system default policy, as necessary.
- * Current or other task's task mempolicy and non-shared vma policies
- * are protected by the task's mmap_sem, which must be held for read by
- * the caller.
+ * Current or other task's task mempolicy and non-shared vma policies must be
+ * protected by task_lock(task) by the caller.
* Shared policies [those marked as MPOL_F_SHARED] require an extra reference
* count--added by the get_policy() vm_op, as appropriate--to protect against
* freeing by another task. It is the caller's responsibility to free the