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| author | Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> | 2011-05-24 17:12:06 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-05-25 08:39:18 -0700 |
| commit | 3d48ae45e72390ddf8cc5256ac32ed6f7a19cbea (patch) | |
| tree | 1f46db3a8424090dd8e0b58991fa5acc1a73e680 /Documentation | |
| parent | 97a894136f29802da19a15541de3c019e1ca147e (diff) | |
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mm: Convert i_mmap_lock to a mutex
Straightforward conversion of i_mmap_lock to a mutex.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/lockstat.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/locking | 2 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/lockstat.txt b/Documentation/lockstat.txt index 65f4c795015d..9c0a80d17a23 100644 --- a/Documentation/lockstat.txt +++ b/Documentation/lockstat.txt @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ View the top contending locks: dcache_lock: 1037 1161 0.38 45.32 774.51 6611 243371 0.15 306.48 77387.24 &inode->i_mutex: 161 286 18446744073709 62882.54 1244614.55 3653 20598 18446744073709 62318.60 1693822.74 &zone->lru_lock: 94 94 0.53 7.33 92.10 4366 32690 0.29 59.81 16350.06 - &inode->i_data.i_mmap_lock: 79 79 0.40 3.77 53.03 11779 87755 0.28 116.93 29898.44 + &inode->i_data.i_mmap_mutex: 79 79 0.40 3.77 53.03 11779 87755 0.28 116.93 29898.44 &q->__queue_lock: 48 50 0.52 31.62 86.31 774 13131 0.17 113.08 12277.52 &rq->rq_lock_key: 43 47 0.74 68.50 170.63 3706 33929 0.22 107.99 17460.62 &rq->rq_lock_key#2: 39 46 0.75 6.68 49.03 2979 32292 0.17 125.17 17137.63 diff --git a/Documentation/vm/locking b/Documentation/vm/locking index 25fadb448760..f61228bd6395 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/locking +++ b/Documentation/vm/locking @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ in some cases it is not really needed. Eg, vm_start is modified by expand_stack(), it is hard to come up with a destructive scenario without having the vmlist protection in this case. -The page_table_lock nests with the inode i_mmap_lock and the kmem cache +The page_table_lock nests with the inode i_mmap_mutex and the kmem cache c_spinlock spinlocks. This is okay, since the kmem code asks for pages after dropping c_spinlock. The page_table_lock also nests with pagecache_lock and pagemap_lru_lock spinlocks, and no code asks for memory with these locks |
