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authorKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>2011-07-25 17:12:10 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-07-25 20:57:08 -0700
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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>
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diff --git a/mm/pagewalk.c b/mm/pagewalk.c
index ee4ff87c58c1..f7929406e776 100644
--- a/mm/pagewalk.c
+++ b/mm/pagewalk.c
@@ -181,6 +181,9 @@ static int walk_hugetlb_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
*
* If any callback returns a non-zero value, the walk is aborted and
* the return value is propagated back to the caller. Otherwise 0 is returned.
+ *
+ * walk->mm->mmap_sem must be held for at least read if walk->hugetlb_entry
+ * is !NULL.
*/
int walk_page_range(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
struct mm_walk *walk)