pagewalk: fix code comment for THP
authorKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:12:11 +0000 (17:12 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 26 Jul 2011 03:57:09 +0000 (20:57 -0700)
Commit bae9c19bf1 ("thp: split_huge_page_mm/vma") changed locking behavior
of walk_page_range().  Thus this patch changes the comment too.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Hiroyuki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyuki@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/pagewalk.c

index f792940..2f5cf10 100644 (file)
@@ -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