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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2013-01-29 11:33:37 +1100
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2013-01-29 11:33:37 +1100
commitdfd0436ad0ce139467b124c646fa65ee2635e14a (patch)
treeabf9d83c704417cdd484243c12aeffee6b185aba /mm/huge_memory.c
parentb9818c3312da66f4b83a4a2e8650628be1237cb5 (diff)
parent689dfa894c57842a05bf6dc9f97e6bb71ec5f386 (diff)
downloadlinux-dfd0436ad0ce139467b124c646fa65ee2635e14a.tar.bz2
Merge branch 'merge' into next
Merge "merge" branch to bring in various bug fixes that are going into 3.8
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/huge_memory.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/huge_memory.c15
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 9e894edc7811..6001ee6347a9 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1819,9 +1819,19 @@ int split_huge_page(struct page *page)
BUG_ON(is_huge_zero_pfn(page_to_pfn(page)));
BUG_ON(!PageAnon(page));
- anon_vma = page_lock_anon_vma_read(page);
+
+ /*
+ * The caller does not necessarily hold an mmap_sem that would prevent
+ * the anon_vma disappearing so we first we take a reference to it
+ * and then lock the anon_vma for write. This is similar to
+ * page_lock_anon_vma_read except the write lock is taken to serialise
+ * against parallel split or collapse operations.
+ */
+ anon_vma = page_get_anon_vma(page);
if (!anon_vma)
goto out;
+ anon_vma_lock_write(anon_vma);
+
ret = 0;
if (!PageCompound(page))
goto out_unlock;
@@ -1832,7 +1842,8 @@ int split_huge_page(struct page *page)
BUG_ON(PageCompound(page));
out_unlock:
- page_unlock_anon_vma_read(anon_vma);
+ anon_vma_unlock(anon_vma);
+ put_anon_vma(anon_vma);
out:
return ret;
}