The patch titled
Subject: mm/filemap.c: correct the comment about VM_FAULT_RETRY
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-filemap-correct-the-comment-about-vm_fault_retry.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-filemap-correct-the-comment-about-vm_fault_retry.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-filemap-correct-the-comment-about-vm_fault_retry.patch
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From: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/filemap.c: correct the comment about VM_FAULT_RETRY
6b4c9f446981 ("filemap: drop the mmap_sem for all blocking operations")
changed when mmap_sem is dropped during filemap page fault and when
returning VM_FAULT_RETRY.
Correct the comment to reflect the change.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1556234531-108228-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/filemap.c | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/filemap.c~mm-filemap-correct-the-comment-about-vm_fault_retry
+++ a/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2456,10 +2456,8 @@ static struct file *do_async_mmap_readah
*
* vma->vm_mm->mmap_sem must be held on entry.
*
- * If our return value has VM_FAULT_RETRY set, it's because
- * lock_page_or_retry() returned 0.
- * The mmap_sem has usually been released in this case.
- * See __lock_page_or_retry() for the exception.
+ * If our return value has VM_FAULT_RETRY set, it's because the mmap_sem
+ * may be dropped before doing I/O or by lock_page_maybe_drop_mmap().
*
* If our return value does not have VM_FAULT_RETRY set, the mmap_sem
* has not been released.
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-mmu_gather-remove-__tlb_reset_range-for-force-flush.patch
mm-filemap-correct-the-comment-about-vm_fault_retry.patch
