It really made me scratching my head. Replace the comment with an accurate and consistent description. The parameter pfn actually referes to the page frame number which is right-shifted by PAGE_SHIFT from the physical address. Signed-off-by: WANG Wenhu <wenhu.wang@xxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index e8bfdf0d9d1d..583f84519870 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -1939,7 +1939,7 @@ static inline int remap_p4d_range(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd, * remap_pfn_range - remap kernel memory to userspace * @vma: user vma to map to * @addr: target user address to start at - * @pfn: physical address of kernel memory + * @pfn: page frame number of kernel physical memory address * @size: size of map area * @prot: page protection flags for this mapping * -- 2.17.1