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Hugh Dickins authored
Updating the mm lock ordering documentation drew attention to the fact that we were wrong to blithely add down_read(&mm->mmap_sem) to swapoff's unuse_process, while it holds swapcache page lock: not very likely, but it could deadlock against, say, mlock faulting a page back in from swap. But it looks like these days it's safe to drop and reacquire page lock if down_read_trylock fails: the page lock is held to stop try_to_unmap unmapping the page's ptes as fast as try_to_unuse is mapping them back in; but the recent fix for get_user_pages works to prevent that too. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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