From 8a7d9b4306258e092afaae3c663661d22bf91f5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wang Sheng-Hui Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 16:04:46 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm/slab.c: fix comments Current struct kmem_cache has no 'lock' field, and slab page is managed by struct kmem_cache_node, which has 'list_lock' field. Clean up the related comment. Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/slab.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c index 1351725f7936..2e60bf3dedbb 100644 --- a/mm/slab.c +++ b/mm/slab.c @@ -1611,7 +1611,8 @@ slab_out_of_memory(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t gfpflags, int nodeid) } /* - * Interface to system's page allocator. No need to hold the cache-lock. + * Interface to system's page allocator. No need to hold the + * kmem_cache_node ->list_lock. * * If we requested dmaable memory, we will get it. Even if we * did not request dmaable memory, we might get it, but that @@ -1913,9 +1914,9 @@ static void slab_destroy_debugcheck(struct kmem_cache *cachep, * @cachep: cache pointer being destroyed * @page: page pointer being destroyed * - * Destroy all the objs in a slab, and release the mem back to the system. - * Before calling the slab must have been unlinked from the cache. The - * cache-lock is not held/needed. + * Destroy all the objs in a slab page, and release the mem back to the system. + * Before calling the slab page must have been unlinked from the cache. The + * kmem_cache_node ->list_lock is not held/needed. */ static void slab_destroy(struct kmem_cache *cachep, struct page *page) { -- 2.11.0