On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 8:28 AM Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 07:41:00 +0530 Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > walk_page_range() already has a check for lockdep_assert_held().
> > So additional check for lockdep_assert_held() can be removed from
> > hmm_range_fault().
> >
> > ...
> >
> > --- a/mm/hmm.c
> > +++ b/mm/hmm.c
> > @@ -681,7 +681,6 @@ long hmm_range_fault(struct hmm_range *range, unsigned int flags)
> > struct mm_struct *mm = range->notifier->mm;
> > int ret;
> >
> > - lockdep_assert_held(&mm->mmap_sem);
> >
> > do {
> > /* If range is no longer valid force retry. */
>
> It isn't very obvious that hmm_range_fault() is and will only be called
> from walk_page_range() (is it?)
>
Sorry Andrew, didn't get this part ?
* hmm_range_fault() is and will only be called
from walk_page_range() (is it?) *
