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SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 12/12] mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments
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On 5/21/20 7:25 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 21 May 2020 00:50:56 -0700 Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> wrote:
>
>> > > * Must be called holding task's alloc_lock to protect task's mems_allowed
>> > > - * and mempolicy. May also be called holding the mmap_semaphore for write.
>> > > + * and mempolicy. May also be called holding the mmap_lockaphore for write.
>> > > */
>> > > static int mpol_set_nodemask(struct mempolicy *pol,
>> > > const nodemask_t *nodes, struct nodemask_scratch *nsc)
>> >
>> > :)
>>
>> Haha, good catch !
>
> aww, you're all so cruel. The world would be a better place if Linux
> had lockaphores!

Heh, in fact it does have them, but they are called "btrfs extent buffer locks",
see (or perhaps rather not) fs/btrfs/locking.c :)



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