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authorAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>2012-03-21 16:34:09 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-03-21 17:54:58 -0700
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mm: update stale lock ordering comment for memory-failure.c
When i_mmap_lock changed to a mutex the locking order in memory failure was changed to take the sleeping lock first. But the big fat mm lock ordering comment (BFMLO) wasn't updated. Do this here. Pointed out by Andrew. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/filemap.c5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index e8cf8aefd6f6..f3230604006c 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -101,9 +101,8 @@
* ->inode->i_lock (zap_pte_range->set_page_dirty)
* ->private_lock (zap_pte_range->__set_page_dirty_buffers)
*
- * (code doesn't rely on that order, so you could switch it around)
- * ->tasklist_lock (memory_failure, collect_procs_ao)
- * ->i_mmap_mutex
+ * ->i_mmap_mutex
+ * ->tasklist_lock (memory_failure, collect_procs_ao)
*/
/*