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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/transhuge.rst | 4 |
4 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 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 diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst index 0af2e0e11461..eb71156bcb7c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst @@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ prototypes:: locking rules: ============= ======== =========================== -ops mmap_sem PageLocked(page) +ops mmap_lock PageLocked(page) ============= ======== =========================== open: yes close: yes diff --git a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.rst index 37c57ca32629..0ed23e59abe5 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.rst @@ -98,9 +98,9 @@ split_huge_page() or split_huge_pmd() has a cost. To make pagetable walks huge pmd aware, all you need to do is to call pmd_trans_huge() on the pmd returned by pmd_offset. You must hold the -mmap_sem in read (or write) mode to be sure a huge pmd cannot be +mmap_lock in read (or write) mode to be sure a huge pmd cannot be created from under you by khugepaged (khugepaged collapse_huge_page -takes the mmap_sem in write mode in addition to the anon_vma lock). If +takes the mmap_lock in write mode in addition to the anon_vma lock). If pmd_trans_huge returns false, you just fallback in the old code paths. If instead pmd_trans_huge returns true, you have to take the page table lock (pmd_lock()) and re-run pmd_trans_huge. Taking the |