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From: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mhocko@kernel.org, mhocko@suse.com, rientjes@google.com,
	willy@infradead.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org, guro@fb.com,
	riel@surriel.com, minchan@kernel.org, kirill@shutemov.name,
	aarcange@redhat.com, christian@brauner.io, hch@infradead.org,
	oleg@redhat.com, david@redhat.com, jannh@google.com,
	shakeelb@google.com, luto@kernel.org,
	christian.brauner@ubuntu.com, fweimer@redhat.com,
	jengelh@inai.de, timmurray@google.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@android.com,
	surenb@google.com
Subject: [PATCH v4 2/3] mm: document locking restrictions for vm_operations_struct::close
Date: Wed,  8 Dec 2021 13:22:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211208212211.2860249-2-surenb@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211208212211.2860249-1-surenb@google.com>

Add comments for vm_operations_struct::close documenting locking
requirements for this callback and its callers.

Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
---
 include/linux/mm.h | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index a7e4a9e7d807..b9b88ba7564b 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -577,6 +577,10 @@ enum page_entry_size {
  */
 struct vm_operations_struct {
 	void (*open)(struct vm_area_struct * area);
+	/**
+	 * @close: Called when the VMA is being removed from the MM.
+	 * Context: User context.  May sleep.  Caller holds mmap_lock.
+	 */
 	void (*close)(struct vm_area_struct * area);
 	/* Called any time before splitting to check if it's allowed */
 	int (*may_split)(struct vm_area_struct *area, unsigned long addr);
-- 
2.34.1.400.ga245620fadb-goog


  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-08 21:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-08 21:22 [PATCH v4 1/3] mm: protect free_pgtables with mmap_lock write lock in exit_mmap Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-12-08 21:22 ` Suren Baghdasaryan [this message]
2021-12-09  8:55   ` [PATCH v4 2/3] mm: document locking restrictions for vm_operations_struct::close Michal Hocko
2021-12-08 21:22 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] mm/oom_kill: allow process_mrelease to run under mmap_lock protection Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-12-09  8:59   ` Michal Hocko
2021-12-09 19:03     ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-12-09  8:55 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] mm: protect free_pgtables with mmap_lock write lock in exit_mmap Michal Hocko
2021-12-09 19:03   ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-12-10  9:20     ` Michal Hocko
2021-12-09  9:12 ` [PATCH 4/3] mm: drop MMF_OOM_SKIP from exit_mmap Michal Hocko
2021-12-09 16:24   ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-12-09 16:47     ` Michal Hocko
2021-12-09 17:06       ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-12-16  2:26         ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-12-16 11:49           ` Johannes Weiner
2021-12-16 17:23             ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-12-30  5:59               ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-12-30  8:24                 ` Michal Hocko
2021-12-30 17:29                   ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2022-01-03 12:11                     ` Michal Hocko
2022-01-03 21:16                       ` Hugh Dickins
2022-01-04 22:24                         ` Suren Baghdasaryan

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