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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.rst index 37c57ca32629..0ed23e59abe5 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.rst @@ -98,9 +98,9 @@ split_huge_page() or split_huge_pmd() has a cost. To make pagetable walks huge pmd aware, all you need to do is to call pmd_trans_huge() on the pmd returned by pmd_offset. You must hold the -mmap_sem in read (or write) mode to be sure a huge pmd cannot be +mmap_lock in read (or write) mode to be sure a huge pmd cannot be created from under you by khugepaged (khugepaged collapse_huge_page -takes the mmap_sem in write mode in addition to the anon_vma lock). If +takes the mmap_lock in write mode in addition to the anon_vma lock). If pmd_trans_huge returns false, you just fallback in the old code paths. If instead pmd_trans_huge returns true, you have to take the page table lock (pmd_lock()) and re-run pmd_trans_huge. Taking the |