* A trivial patch for removing unnecessary comment in mm/filemap.c
@ 2004-07-14 23:39 Himanshu Raj
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From: Himanshu Raj @ 2004-07-14 23:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi,
This patch removes some unnecessary comments in mm/filemap.c in function find_get_page. First, there is no
longer a hash list being used, second the lock being used is the same for search as well as addition/removal.
Thanks,
Himanshu
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--- linux-2.6.8-rc1-old/mm/filemap.c 2004-07-14 19:29:53.757633968 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.8-rc1/mm/filemap.c 2004-07-14 19:30:05.365869248 -0400
@@ -440,10 +440,6 @@
{
struct page *page;
- /*
- * We scan the hash list read-only. Addition to and removal from
- * the hash-list needs a held write-lock.
- */
spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
page = radix_tree_lookup(&mapping->page_tree, offset);
if (page)
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