From d5ee7c3bcca6fe2b4f7a1fdee253250059c110d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrea Arcangeli Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 16:58:27 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: thp: split_huge_pmd_address() comment improvement Comment is partly wrong, this improves it by including the case of split_huge_pmd_address() called by try_to_unmap_one if TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD is set. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462547040-1737-4-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Alex Williamson Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/huge_memory.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c index 86eafd91c982..1764184c4774 100644 --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -3023,8 +3023,10 @@ void split_huge_pmd_address(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, return; /* - * Caller holds the mmap_sem write mode, so a huge pmd cannot - * materialize from under us. + * Caller holds the mmap_sem write mode or the anon_vma lock, + * so a huge pmd cannot materialize from under us (khugepaged + * holds both the mmap_sem write mode and the anon_vma lock + * write mode). */ __split_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, address, freeze); } -- 2.20.1