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Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt: fix ->repeasepage() description
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Subject: Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt: fix ->repeasepage() description
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
->releasepage() does not remove the page from the mapping.
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 9 ++++-----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff -puN Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt~documentation-filesystems-vfstxt-fix-repeasepage-description Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt~documentation-filesystems-vfstxt-fix-repeasepage-description
+++ a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -660,11 +660,10 @@ struct address_space_operations {
releasepage: releasepage is called on PagePrivate pages to indicate
that the page should be freed if possible. ->releasepage
should remove any private data from the page and clear the
- PagePrivate flag. It may also remove the page from the
- address_space. If this fails for some reason, it may indicate
- failure with a 0 return value.
- This is used in two distinct though related cases. The first
- is when the VM finds a clean page with no active users and
+ PagePrivate flag. If releasepage() fails for some reason, it must
+ indicate failure with a 0 return value.
+ releasepage() is used in two distinct though related cases. The
+ first is when the VM finds a clean page with no active users and
wants to make it a free page. If ->releasepage succeeds, the
page will be removed from the address_space and become free.
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