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author | Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2013-04-29 18:08:16 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-04-29 18:54:37 -0400 |
commit | c73e5c9c59a0f7ba30b3e5f7bd2d8097d4c89c6d (patch) | |
tree | 00358e655740230b103854f581d00c58a691a866 /mm | |
parent | 52f37629fd3c7b24e1e6c125e665454cd7ac1acb (diff) |
mm: rewrite the comment over migrate_pages() more comprehensibly
The comment over migrate_pages() looks quite weird, and makes it hard to
grasp what it is trying to say. Rewrite it more comprehensibly.
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.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/migrate.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c index c87ef9207853..27ed22579fd9 100644 --- a/mm/migrate.c +++ b/mm/migrate.c | |||
@@ -973,19 +973,23 @@ out: | |||
973 | } | 973 | } |
974 | 974 | ||
975 | /* | 975 | /* |
976 | * migrate_pages | 976 | * migrate_pages - migrate the pages specified in a list, to the free pages |
977 | * supplied as the target for the page migration | ||
977 | * | 978 | * |
978 | * The function takes one list of pages to migrate and a function | 979 | * @from: The list of pages to be migrated. |
979 | * that determines from the page to be migrated and the private data | 980 | * @get_new_page: The function used to allocate free pages to be used |
980 | * the target of the move and allocates the page. | 981 | * as the target of the page migration. |
982 | * @private: Private data to be passed on to get_new_page() | ||
983 | * @mode: The migration mode that specifies the constraints for | ||
984 | * page migration, if any. | ||
985 | * @reason: The reason for page migration. | ||
981 | * | 986 | * |
982 | * The function returns after 10 attempts or if no pages | 987 | * The function returns after 10 attempts or if no pages are movable any more |
983 | * are movable anymore because to has become empty | 988 | * because the list has become empty or no retryable pages exist any more. |
984 | * or no retryable pages exist anymore. | 989 | * The caller should call putback_lru_pages() to return pages to the LRU |
985 | * Caller should call putback_lru_pages to return pages to the LRU | ||
986 | * or free list only if ret != 0. | 990 | * or free list only if ret != 0. |
987 | * | 991 | * |
988 | * Return: Number of pages not migrated or error code. | 992 | * Returns the number of pages that were not migrated, or an error code. |
989 | */ | 993 | */ |
990 | int migrate_pages(struct list_head *from, new_page_t get_new_page, | 994 | int migrate_pages(struct list_head *from, new_page_t get_new_page, |
991 | unsigned long private, enum migrate_mode mode, int reason) | 995 | unsigned long private, enum migrate_mode mode, int reason) |