From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
aarcange@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] pagewalk: fix code comment for THP
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 16:11:28 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DDCABA0.4000207@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DDCAAC0.20102@jp.fujitsu.com>
commit bae9c19bf1 (thp: split_huge_page_mm/vma) changed locking behavior
of walk_page_range(). Thus this patch changes comment too.
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
---
mm/pagewalk.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/pagewalk.c b/mm/pagewalk.c
index f792940..2f5cf10 100644
--- a/mm/pagewalk.c
+++ b/mm/pagewalk.c
@@ -176,7 +176,8 @@ static int walk_hugetlb_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
* associated range, and a copy of the original mm_walk for access to
* the ->private or ->mm fields.
*
- * No locks are taken, but the bottom level iterator will map PTE
+ * Usually no locks are taken, but splitting transparent huge page may
+ * take page table lock. And the bottom level iterator will map PTE
* directories from highmem if necessary.
*
* If any callback returns a non-zero value, the walk is aborted and
--
1.7.3.1
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-25 7:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-25 7:07 [PATCH 0/4] fix pagewalk minor issues KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-05-25 7:08 ` [PATCH 1/4] pagewalk: Fix walk_page_range() don't check find_vma() result properly KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-05-25 7:09 ` [PATCH 2/4] pagewalk: don't look up vma if walk->hugetlb_entry is unused KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-05-25 7:10 ` [PATCH 3/4] pagewalk: add locking-rule commnets KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-05-25 7:11 ` KOSAKI Motohiro [this message]
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