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authorMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>2023-03-27 18:45:15 +0100
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2023-04-05 19:43:00 -0700
commit58ef47ef7db9dfc2730dc039498cc76130ea3c3d (patch)
treed54aff16b7b756de9cac97a3eadcda5579fe9d4a /Documentation/filesystems
parent0050d7f5ee532f92e8ab1efcec6547bfac527973 (diff)
downloadlinux-58ef47ef7db9dfc2730dc039498cc76130ea3c3d.tar.gz
mm: hold the RCU read lock over calls to ->map_pages
Prevent filesystems from doing things which sleep in their map_pages method. This is in preparation for a pagefault path protected only by RCU. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230327174515.1811532-4-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
index 7de7a7272a5e83..aa1a233b0fa862 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
@@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ ops mmap_lock PageLocked(page)
open: yes
close: yes
fault: yes can return with page locked
-map_pages: yes
+map_pages: read
page_mkwrite: yes can return with page locked
pfn_mkwrite: yes
access: yes
@@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ locked. The VM will unlock the page.
->map_pages() is called when VM asks to map easy accessible pages.
Filesystem should find and map pages associated with offsets from "start_pgoff"
-till "end_pgoff". ->map_pages() is called with page table locked and must
+till "end_pgoff". ->map_pages() is called with the RCU lock held and must
not block. If it's not possible to reach a page without blocking,
filesystem should skip it. Filesystem should use do_set_pte() to setup
page table entry. Pointer to entry associated with the page is passed in