The patch titled
Subject: mm/slab.c: fix comments
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-trivial-comment-cleanup-in-slabc.patch
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http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-trivial-comment-cleanup-in-slabc.patch
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http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-trivial-comment-cleanup-in-slabc.patch
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From: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/slab.c: fix comments
Current struct kmem_cache has no 'lock' field, and slab page is managed by
struct kmem_cache_node, which has 'list_lock' field.
Clean up the related comment.
Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/slab.c | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/slab.c~mm-trivial-comment-cleanup-in-slabc mm/slab.c
--- a/mm/slab.c~mm-trivial-comment-cleanup-in-slabc
+++ a/mm/slab.c
@@ -1611,7 +1611,8 @@ slab_out_of_memory(struct kmem_cache *ca
}
/*
- * Interface to system's page allocator. No need to hold the cache-lock.
+ * Interface to system's page allocator. No need to hold the
+ * kmem_cache_node ->list_lock.
*
* If we requested dmaable memory, we will get it. Even if we
* did not request dmaable memory, we might get it, but that
@@ -1913,9 +1914,9 @@ static void slab_destroy_debugcheck(stru
* @cachep: cache pointer being destroyed
* @page: page pointer being destroyed
*
- * Destroy all the objs in a slab, and release the mem back to the system.
- * Before calling the slab must have been unlinked from the cache. The
- * cache-lock is not held/needed.
+ * Destroy all the objs in a slab page, and release the mem back to the system.
+ * Before calling the slab page must have been unlinked from the cache. The
+ * kmem_cache_node ->list_lock is not held/needed.
*/
static void slab_destroy(struct kmem_cache *cachep, struct page *page)
{
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from shhuiw@xxxxxxxxx are
mm-trivial-comment-cleanup-in-slabc.patch
mm-update-the-description-for-madvise_remove.patch
mm-update-the-description-for-vm_total_pages.patch
mm-remove-the-unused-gfp-arg-to-shmem_add_to_page_cache.patch
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