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Document ->page_mkwrite() locking 

There seems to be very little documentation about this callback in general.
The locking in particular is a bit tricky, so it's worth having this in
writing.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mark Fasheh 2007-07-19 01:47:01 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
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commit ed2f2f9b3f
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@ -512,13 +512,22 @@ prototypes:
void (*close)(struct vm_area_struct*);
struct page *(*fault)(struct vm_area_struct*, struct fault_data *);
struct page *(*nopage)(struct vm_area_struct*, unsigned long, int *);
int (*page_mkwrite)(struct vm_area_struct *, struct page *);
locking rules:
BKL mmap_sem
BKL mmap_sem PageLocked(page)
open: no yes
close: no yes
fault: no yes
nopage: no yes
page_mkwrite: no yes no
->page_mkwrite() is called when a previously read-only page is
about to become writeable. The file system is responsible for
protecting against truncate races. Once appropriate action has been
taking to lock out truncate, the page range should be verified to be
within i_size. The page mapping should also be checked that it is not
NULL.
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Dubious stuff