The patch titled
swap: update function comment of release_pages
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
swap-update-function-comment-of-release_pages.patch
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Subject: swap: update function comment of release_pages
From: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/swap.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/swap.c~swap-update-function-comment-of-release_pages mm/swap.c
--- a/mm/swap.c~swap-update-function-comment-of-release_pages
+++ a/mm/swap.c
@@ -278,9 +278,10 @@ int lru_add_drain_all(void)
* Avoid taking zone->lru_lock if possible, but if it is taken, retain it
* for the remainder of the operation.
*
- * The locking in this function is against shrink_cache(): we recheck the
- * page count inside the lock to see whether shrink_cache grabbed the page
- * via the LRU. If it did, give up: shrink_cache will free it.
+ * The locking in this function is against shrink_inactive_list(): we recheck
+ * the page count inside the lock to see whether shrink_inactive_list()
+ * grabbed the page via the LRU. If it did, give up: shrink_inactive_list()
+ * will free it.
*/
void release_pages(struct page **pages, int nr, int cold)
{
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from fernando@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
madvise-update-function-comment-of-madvise_dontneed.patch
swap-update-function-comment-of-release_pages.patch
swapfile-vmscan-update-comments-related-to-vmscan-functions.patch
do_try_to_free_page-update-comments-related-to-vmscan-functions.patch
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