The patch titled Subject: mm/memory.c: share the i_mmap_rwsem has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-memoryc-share-the-i_mmap_rwsem.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-memoryc-share-the-i_mmap_rwsem.patch echo and later at echo http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-memoryc-share-the-i_mmap_rwsem.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/memory.c: share the i_mmap_rwsem The unmap_mapping_range family of functions do the unmapping of user pages (ultimately via zap_page_range_single) without touching the actual interval tree, thus share the lock. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@xxxxxxx> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/memory.c~mm-memoryc-share-the-i_mmap_rwsem mm/memory.c --- a/mm/memory.c~mm-memoryc-share-the-i_mmap_rwsem +++ a/mm/memory.c @@ -2392,12 +2392,12 @@ void unmap_mapping_range(struct address_ details.last_index = ULONG_MAX; - i_mmap_lock_write(mapping); + i_mmap_lock_read(mapping); if (unlikely(!RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&mapping->i_mmap))) unmap_mapping_range_tree(&mapping->i_mmap, &details); if (unlikely(!list_empty(&mapping->i_mmap_nonlinear))) unmap_mapping_range_list(&mapping->i_mmap_nonlinear, &details); - i_mmap_unlock_write(mapping); + i_mmap_unlock_read(mapping); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(unmap_mapping_range); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx are mmfs-introduce-helpers-around-the-i_mmap_mutex.patch mm-use-new-helper-functions-around-the-i_mmap_mutex.patch mm-convert-i_mmap_mutex-to-rwsem.patch mm-rmap-share-the-i_mmap_rwsem.patch uprobes-share-the-i_mmap_rwsem.patch mm-xip-share-the-i_mmap_rwsem.patch mm-memory-failure-share-the-i_mmap_rwsem.patch mm-nommu-share-the-i_mmap_rwsem.patch mm-memoryc-share-the-i_mmap_rwsem.patch ipc-semc-chance-memory-barrier-in-sem_lock-to-smp_rmb.patch ipc-semc-chance-memory-barrier-in-sem_lock-to-smp_rmb-fix.patch ipc-semc-chance-memory-barrier-in-sem_lock-to-smp_rmb-fix-fix.patch ipc-semc-increase-semmsl-semmni-semopm.patch ipc-msg-increase-msgmni-remove-scaling.patch ipc-msg-increase-msgmni-remove-scaling-checkpatch-fixes.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html