mm: improve page_lock_anon_vma() comment
A slightly more verbose comment to go along with the trickery in page_lock_anon_vma(). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> 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: 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>
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@ -320,8 +320,22 @@ void __init anon_vma_init(void)
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/*
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* Getting a lock on a stable anon_vma from a page off the LRU is
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* tricky: page_lock_anon_vma rely on RCU to guard against the races.
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* Getting a lock on a stable anon_vma from a page off the LRU is tricky!
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*
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* Since there is no serialization what so ever against page_remove_rmap()
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* the best this function can do is return a locked anon_vma that might
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* have been relevant to this page.
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*
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* The page might have been remapped to a different anon_vma or the anon_vma
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* returned may already be freed (and even reused).
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*
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* All users of this function must be very careful when walking the anon_vma
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* chain and verify that the page in question is indeed mapped in it
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* [ something equivalent to page_mapped_in_vma() ].
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*
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* Since anon_vma's slab is DESTROY_BY_RCU and we know from page_remove_rmap()
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* that the anon_vma pointer from page->mapping is valid if there is a
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* mapcount, we can dereference the anon_vma after observing those.
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*/
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struct anon_vma *page_lock_anon_vma(struct page *page)
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{
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