The patch titled
Subject: mm-prevent-endless-growth-of-anon_vma-hierarchy-fix
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-prevent-endless-growth-of-anon_vma-hierarchy-fix.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-prevent-endless-growth-of-anon_vma-hierarchy-fix.patch
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http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-prevent-endless-growth-of-anon_vma-hierarchy-fix.patch
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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm-prevent-endless-growth-of-anon_vma-hierarchy-fix
fix typo, per Rik
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/rmap.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/rmap.c~mm-prevent-endless-growth-of-anon_vma-hierarchy-fix mm/rmap.c
--- a/mm/rmap.c~mm-prevent-endless-growth-of-anon_vma-hierarchy-fix
+++ a/mm/rmap.c
@@ -244,9 +244,10 @@ static inline void unlock_anon_vma_root(
* If dst->anon_vma is NULL this function tries to find and reuse existing
* anon_vma which has no vmas and only one child anon_vma. This prevents
* degradation of anon_vma hierarchy to endless linear chain in case of
- * constantly forking task. In other hand anon_vma with more than one child
- * isn't reused even if was no alive vma, thus rmap walker has a good chance
- * to avoid scanning whole hieraryhy when it searches where page is mapped.
+ * constantly forking task. On the other hand, an anon_vma with more than one
+ * child isn't reused even if there was no alive vma, thus rmap walker has a
+ * good chance of avoiding scanning the whole hierarchy when it searches where
+ * page is mapped.
*/
int anon_vma_clone(struct vm_area_struct *dst, struct vm_area_struct *src)
{
_
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