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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mempolicy.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/mempolicy.c | 5 |
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 |