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author | Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp> | 2008-07-30 01:33:39 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-07-30 12:41:45 -0400 |
commit | 7e6cbea39aaa32480145915751119227f29f6f7b (patch) | |
tree | b22cf970a882bca6cd4e526d6b7b9e9396981c37 /mm | |
parent | 641de9d8f505db055d451b50e6e38117f84e79bb (diff) |
madvise: update function comment of madvise_dontneed
Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/madvise.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c index 23a0ec3e0ea0..f9349c18a1b5 100644 --- a/mm/madvise.c +++ b/mm/madvise.c | |||
@@ -132,10 +132,10 @@ static long madvise_willneed(struct vm_area_struct * vma, | |||
132 | * Application no longer needs these pages. If the pages are dirty, | 132 | * Application no longer needs these pages. If the pages are dirty, |
133 | * it's OK to just throw them away. The app will be more careful about | 133 | * it's OK to just throw them away. The app will be more careful about |
134 | * data it wants to keep. Be sure to free swap resources too. The | 134 | * data it wants to keep. Be sure to free swap resources too. The |
135 | * zap_page_range call sets things up for refill_inactive to actually free | 135 | * zap_page_range call sets things up for shrink_active_list to actually free |
136 | * these pages later if no one else has touched them in the meantime, | 136 | * these pages later if no one else has touched them in the meantime, |
137 | * although we could add these pages to a global reuse list for | 137 | * although we could add these pages to a global reuse list for |
138 | * refill_inactive to pick up before reclaiming other pages. | 138 | * shrink_active_list to pick up before reclaiming other pages. |
139 | * | 139 | * |
140 | * NB: This interface discards data rather than pushes it out to swap, | 140 | * NB: This interface discards data rather than pushes it out to swap, |
141 | * as some implementations do. This has performance implications for | 141 | * as some implementations do. This has performance implications for |