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| author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2012-11-28 07:22:38 -0200 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2012-11-28 07:22:38 -0200 |
| commit | d033a308d81ec83908760a15a841c2bd0d5e0ea3 (patch) | |
| tree | 647abd67987fe4d7fee80105fc823edf3f53b4f6 /mm/mempolicy.c | |
| parent | c6c22955f80f2db9614b01fe5a3d1cfcd8b3d848 (diff) | |
| parent | e23739b4ade80a3a7f87198f008f6c44a7cbc9fd (diff) | |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'linus/master' into staging/for_v3.8
* linus/master: (1428 commits)
futex: avoid wake_futex() for a PI futex_q
watchdog: using u64 in get_sample_period()
writeback: put unused inodes to LRU after writeback completion
mm: vmscan: check for fatal signals iff the process was throttled
Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD"
proc: check vma->vm_file before dereferencing
UAPI: strip the _UAPI prefix from header guards during header installation
include/linux/bug.h: fix sparse warning related to BUILD_BUG_ON_INVALID
Linux 3.7-rc7
powerpc/eeh: Do not invalidate PE properly
ALSA: hda - Fix build without CONFIG_PM
of/address: sparc: Declare of_iomap as an extern function for sparc again
PM / QoS: fix wrong error-checking condition
bnx2x: remove redundant warning log
vxlan: fix command usage in its doc
8139cp: revert "set ring address before enabling receiver"
MPI: Fix compilation on MIPS with GCC 4.4 and newer
MIPS: Fix crash that occurs when function tracing is enabled
MIPS: Merge overlapping bootmem ranges
jbd: Fix lock ordering bug in journal_unmap_buffer()
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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mempolicy.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/mempolicy.c | 5 |
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 |