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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2012-07-29 18:22:20 (GMT)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2012-07-30 09:27:20 (GMT)
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uprobes: Clean up and document write_opcode()->lock_page(old_page)
The comment above write_opcode()->lock_page(old_page) tells about the race with do_wp_page(). I don't really understand which exactly race it means, but afaics this lock_page() was not enough to close all races with do_wp_page(). Anyway, since: 77fc4af1b59d uprobes: Change register_for_each_vma() to take mm->mmap_sem for writing this code is always called with ->mmap_sem held for writing, so we can forget about do_wp_page(). However, we can't simply remove this lock_page(), and the only (afaics) reason is __replace_page()->try_to_free_swap(). Nothing in write_opcode() needs it, move it into __replace_page() and fix the comment. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120729182220.GA20322@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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