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authorHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>2005-11-23 13:37:39 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-11-23 16:08:38 -0800
commit01edcd891c3e9f4bb992ff2ceb69836bf76f8ddf (patch)
tree3b8ab4808220d1caaf3ba34db16917f71b852a08 /arch/powerpc
parentcc3327e7dfc16a9a3e164075234c869867a59e45 (diff)
[PATCH] mm: powerpc ptlock comments
Update comments (only) on page_table_lock and mmap_sem in arch/powerpc. Removed the comment on page_table_lock from hash_huge_page: since it's no longer taking page_table_lock itself, it's irrelevant whether others are; but how it is safe (even against huge file truncation?) I can't say. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c4
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c2
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_32.c6
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_64.c4
4 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
index 426c269e552..9250f14be8e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -754,9 +754,7 @@ repeat:
}
/*
- * No need to use ldarx/stdcx here because all who
- * might be updating the pte will hold the
- * page_table_lock
+ * No need to use ldarx/stdcx here
*/
*ptep = __pte(new_pte & ~_PAGE_BUSY);
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
index 4bd7b0a7099..ed6ed2e30da 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_icache_user_range);
* We use it to preload an HPTE into the hash table corresponding to
* the updated linux PTE.
*
- * This must always be called with the mm->page_table_lock held
+ * This must always be called with the pte lock held.
*/
void update_mmu_cache(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
pte_t pte)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_32.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_32.c
index 6c3dc3c44c8..ad580f3742e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_32.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_32.c
@@ -149,6 +149,12 @@ void flush_tlb_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
return;
}
+ /*
+ * It is safe to go down the mm's list of vmas when called
+ * from dup_mmap, holding mmap_sem. It would also be safe from
+ * unmap_region or exit_mmap, but not from vmtruncate on SMP -
+ * but it seems dup_mmap is the only SMP case which gets here.
+ */
for (mp = mm->mmap; mp != NULL; mp = mp->vm_next)
flush_range(mp->vm_mm, mp->vm_start, mp->vm_end);
FINISH_FLUSH;
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_64.c
index 53e31b834ac..859d29a0cac 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_64.c
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ static void pte_free_submit(struct pte_freelist_batch *batch)
void pgtable_free_tlb(struct mmu_gather *tlb, pgtable_free_t pgf)
{
- /* This is safe as we are holding page_table_lock */
+ /* This is safe since tlb_gather_mmu has disabled preemption */
cpumask_t local_cpumask = cpumask_of_cpu(smp_processor_id());
struct pte_freelist_batch **batchp = &__get_cpu_var(pte_freelist_cur);
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ void __flush_tlb_pending(struct ppc64_tlb_batch *batch)
void pte_free_finish(void)
{
- /* This is safe as we are holding page_table_lock */
+ /* This is safe since tlb_gather_mmu has disabled preemption */
struct pte_freelist_batch **batchp = &__get_cpu_var(pte_freelist_cur);
if (*batchp == NULL)