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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/fork.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 876b31cd822..a28d11e1087 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -250,8 +250,9 @@ static inline int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct * mm, struct mm_struct * oldmm) /* * Link in the new vma and copy the page table entries: - * link in first so that swapoff can see swap entries, - * and try_to_unmap_one's find_vma find the new vma. + * link in first so that swapoff can see swap entries. + * Note that, exceptionally, here the vma is inserted + * without holding mm->mmap_sem. */ spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock); *pprev = tmp; |