Commit 7a405079 authored by Nick Piggin's avatar Nick Piggin Committed by Linus Torvalds

mm: document tree_lock->zone.lock lockorder

zone->lock is quite an "inner" lock and mostly constrained to page alloc as
well, so like slab locks, it probably isn't something that is critically
important to document here.  However unlike slab locks, zone lock could be
used more widely in future, and page_alloc.c might possibly have more
business to do tricky things with pagecache than does slab.  So...  I don't
think it hurts to document it.
Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent d773ed6b
......@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ generic_file_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
* ->private_lock (__free_pte->__set_page_dirty_buffers)
* ->swap_lock (exclusive_swap_page, others)
* ->mapping->tree_lock
* ->zone.lock
*
* ->i_mutex
* ->i_mmap_lock (truncate->unmap_mapping_range)
......
......@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
* mapping->tree_lock (widely used, in set_page_dirty,
* in arch-dependent flush_dcache_mmap_lock,
* within inode_lock in __sync_single_inode)
* zone->lock (within radix tree node alloc)
*/
#include <linux/mm.h>
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