Commit 45918e1a authored by Hugh Dickins's avatar Hugh Dickins Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] dup_mmap: update comment on new vma

Remove part of comment on linking new vma in dup_mmap: since anon_vma rmap
came in, try_to_unmap_one knows the vma without needing find_vma.  But add
a comment to note that here vma is inserted without mmap_sem.
Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 91612e0d
...@@ -250,8 +250,9 @@ static inline int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct * mm, struct mm_struct * oldmm) ...@@ -250,8 +250,9 @@ static inline int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct * mm, struct mm_struct * oldmm)
/* /*
* Link in the new vma and copy the page table entries: * Link in the new vma and copy the page table entries:
* link in first so that swapoff can see swap entries, * link in first so that swapoff can see swap entries.
* and try_to_unmap_one's find_vma find the new vma. * Note that, exceptionally, here the vma is inserted
* without holding mm->mmap_sem.
*/ */
spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock); spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
*pprev = tmp; *pprev = tmp;
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