[PATCH] mm: comment rmap
authorNick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:54:46 +0000 (15:54 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@evo.osdl.org>
Mon, 5 Sep 2005 07:05:43 +0000 (00:05 -0700)
Just be clear that VM_RESERVED pages here are a bug, and the test is not there
because they are expected.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
mm/rmap.c

index 28c6cf96d3c4f9ae60fd45a7f4ecfe23d8968816..f5a6966b7eb0af81d73c8d2dc22e5a8cca833544 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -527,6 +527,8 @@ static int try_to_unmap_one(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
         * If the page is mlock()d, we cannot swap it out.
         * If it's recently referenced (perhaps page_referenced
         * skipped over this mm) then we should reactivate it.
+        *
+        * Pages belonging to VM_RESERVED regions should not happen here.
         */
        if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_LOCKED|VM_RESERVED)) ||
                        ptep_clear_flush_young(vma, address, pte)) {