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authorTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2012-10-30 11:08:25 +0100
committerTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2012-10-30 11:08:25 +0100
commita5d00dc3a4b65ed38249f3225e453944c633747b (patch)
tree6249ca5a5f13059f42890525a9ea7133778f3891 /mm/mempolicy.c
parent1a8506d4402b6e96c2ed778dc7ccbb48d1e02fce (diff)
parent0914f7961babbf28aaa2f19b453951fb4841c03f (diff)
Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-next
... for migrating the core changes for USB-audio disconnection fixes
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mempolicy.c')
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 0b78fb9ea65b..d04a8a54c294 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -1536,9 +1536,8 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_mbind(compat_ulong_t start, compat_ulong_t len,
*
* Returns effective policy for a VMA at specified address.
* Falls back to @task or system default policy, as necessary.
- * Current or other task's task mempolicy and non-shared vma policies
- * are protected by the task's mmap_sem, which must be held for read by
- * the caller.
+ * Current or other task's task mempolicy and non-shared vma policies must be
+ * protected by task_lock(task) by the caller.
* Shared policies [those marked as MPOL_F_SHARED] require an extra reference
* count--added by the get_policy() vm_op, as appropriate--to protect against
* freeing by another task. It is the caller's responsibility to free the