From c0a499c2c42992cff097b38be29d2ba60d2fd99a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Chen, Kenneth W" Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 20:31:39 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] __unmap_hugepage_range(): add comment Signed-off-by: Ken Chen Cc: David Gibson Cc: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/hugetlb.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index a088f593a807..f7355bf2f285 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -365,6 +365,11 @@ void __unmap_hugepage_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start, pte_t pte; struct page *page; struct page *tmp; + /* + * A page gathering list, protected by per file i_mmap_lock. The + * lock is used to avoid list corruption from multiple unmapping + * of the same page since we are using page->lru. + */ LIST_HEAD(page_list); WARN_ON(!is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)); -- 2.20.1