On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 03:17:27PM -0600, Jane Chu wrote:
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -387,6 +387,13 @@ enum page_entry_size {
> * These are the virtual MM functions - opening of an area, closing and
> * unmapping it (needed to keep files on disk up-to-date etc), pointer
> * to the functions called when a no-page or a wp-page exception occurs.
> + *
> + * Note, when a new function is introduced to vm_operations_struct and
> + * added to hugetlb_vm_ops, please consider adding the function to
> + * shm_vm_ops. This is because under System V memory model, though
> + * mappings created via shmget/shmat with "huge page" specified are
> + * backed by hugetlbfs files, their original vm_ops are overwritten with
> + * shm_vm_ops.
> */
> struct vm_operations_struct {
I don't think this header file is the right place for this comment.
I'd think a better place for it would be at the definition of hugetlb_vm_ops.
