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[PATCH] __unmap_hugepage_range(): add comment

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Chen, Kenneth W 18 年之前
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      mm/hugetlb.c

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mm/hugetlb.c

@@ -365,6 +365,11 @@ void __unmap_hugepage_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
 	pte_t pte;
 	struct page *page;
 	struct page *tmp;
+	/*
+	 * A page gathering list, protected by per file i_mmap_lock. The
+	 * lock is used to avoid list corruption from multiple unmapping
+	 * of the same page since we are using page->lru.
+	 */
 	LIST_HEAD(page_list);
 
 	WARN_ON(!is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma));