[PATCH 4/4] pagewalk: fix code comment for THP

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Wed May 25 2011 - 03:11:41 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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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