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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst index a44cd467d218..52688ae34461 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst @@ -287,20 +287,17 @@ When oom event notifier is registered, event will be delivered. 2.6 Locking ----------- - lock_page_cgroup()/unlock_page_cgroup() should not be called under - the i_pages lock. +Lock order is as follows: - Other lock order is following: + Page lock (PG_locked bit of page->flags) + mm->page_table_lock or split pte_lock + lock_page_memcg (memcg->move_lock) + mapping->i_pages lock + lruvec->lru_lock. - PG_locked. - mm->page_table_lock - pgdat->lru_lock - lock_page_cgroup. - - In many cases, just lock_page_cgroup() is called. - - per-zone-per-cgroup LRU (cgroup's private LRU) is just guarded by - pgdat->lru_lock, it has no lock of its own. +Per-node-per-memcgroup LRU (cgroup's private LRU) is guarded by +lruvec->lru_lock; PG_lru bit of page->flags is cleared before +isolating a page from its LRU under lruvec->lru_lock. 2.7 Kernel Memory Extension (CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM) ----------------------------------------------- |