mm: Convert i_mmap_lock to a mutex

Straightforward conversion of i_mmap_lock to a mutex.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.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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Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-24 17:12:06 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 97a894136f
commit 3d48ae45e7
17 changed files with 58 additions and 58 deletions
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@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ in some cases it is not really needed. Eg, vm_start is modified by
expand_stack(), it is hard to come up with a destructive scenario without
having the vmlist protection in this case.
The page_table_lock nests with the inode i_mmap_lock and the kmem cache
The page_table_lock nests with the inode i_mmap_mutex and the kmem cache
c_spinlock spinlocks. This is okay, since the kmem code asks for pages after
dropping c_spinlock. The page_table_lock also nests with pagecache_lock and
pagemap_lru_lock spinlocks, and no code asks for memory with these locks