From: Andrew Morton Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 22:31:19 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt: fix ->repeasepage() description X-Git-Url: http://git.osdn.net/view?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4fe65cab844e6d3d7d310e66a501d5e7242ecb54;p=sagit-ice-cold%2Fkernel_xiaomi_msm8998.git Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt: fix ->repeasepage() description ->releasepage() does not remove the page from the mapping. Acked-by: Neil Brown Cc: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index ed7e5efc06d8..55c28b79d8dc 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/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.