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mlock: replace stale comments in munlock_vma_page()
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Cleanup stale comments on munlock_vma_page().

Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Lee Schermerhorn authored and torvalds committed Dec 15, 2009
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41 changes: 19 additions & 22 deletions mm/mlock.c
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Expand Up @@ -88,23 +88,20 @@ void mlock_vma_page(struct page *page)
}
}

/*
* called from munlock()/munmap() path with page supposedly on the LRU.
/**
* munlock_vma_page - munlock a vma page
* @page - page to be unlocked
*
* Note: unlike mlock_vma_page(), we can't just clear the PageMlocked
* [in try_to_munlock()] and then attempt to isolate the page. We must
* isolate the page to keep others from messing with its unevictable
* and mlocked state while trying to munlock. However, we pre-clear the
* mlocked state anyway as we might lose the isolation race and we might
* not get another chance to clear PageMlocked. If we successfully
* isolate the page and try_to_munlock() detects other VM_LOCKED vmas
* mapping the page, it will restore the PageMlocked state, unless the page
* is mapped in a non-linear vma. So, we go ahead and ClearPageMlocked(),
* perhaps redundantly.
* If we lose the isolation race, and the page is mapped by other VM_LOCKED
* vmas, we'll detect this in vmscan--via try_to_munlock() or try_to_unmap()
* either of which will restore the PageMlocked state by calling
* mlock_vma_page() above, if it can grab the vma's mmap sem.
* called from munlock()/munmap() path with page supposedly on the LRU.
* When we munlock a page, because the vma where we found the page is being
* munlock()ed or munmap()ed, we want to check whether other vmas hold the
* page locked so that we can leave it on the unevictable lru list and not
* bother vmscan with it. However, to walk the page's rmap list in
* try_to_munlock() we must isolate the page from the LRU. If some other
* task has removed the page from the LRU, we won't be able to do that.
* So we clear the PageMlocked as we might not get another chance. If we
* can't isolate the page, we leave it for putback_lru_page() and vmscan
* [page_referenced()/try_to_unmap()] to deal with.
*/
void munlock_vma_page(struct page *page)
{
Expand All @@ -123,12 +120,12 @@ void munlock_vma_page(struct page *page)
putback_lru_page(page);
} else {
/*
* We lost the race. let try_to_unmap() deal
* with it. At least we get the page state and
* mlock stats right. However, page is still on
* the noreclaim list. We'll fix that up when
* the page is eventually freed or we scan the
* noreclaim list.
* Some other task has removed the page from the LRU.
* putback_lru_page() will take care of removing the
* page from the unevictable list, if necessary.
* vmscan [page_referenced()] will move the page back
* to the unevictable list if some other vma has it
* mlocked.
*/
if (PageUnevictable(page))
count_vm_event(UNEVICTABLE_PGSTRANDED);
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