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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2006-10-19 23:29:10 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-20 10:26:44 -0700
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[PATCH] mm: more commenting on lock ordering
Clarify lockorder comments now that sys_msync dropps mmap_sem before calling do_fsync. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 57faa8d1209..8558732e85c 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ generic_file_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
* ->mmap_sem
* ->lock_page (access_process_vm)
*
- * ->mmap_sem
- * ->i_mutex (msync)
+ * ->i_mutex (generic_file_buffered_write)
+ * ->mmap_sem (fault_in_pages_readable->do_page_fault)
*
* ->i_mutex
* ->i_alloc_sem (various)