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Commit 7e6cbea3 authored by Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao's avatar Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao Committed by Linus Torvalds
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madvise: update function comment of madvise_dontneed 



Signed-off-by: default avatarFernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 641de9d8

mm/madvise.c

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@@ -132,10 +132,10 @@ static long madvise_willneed(struct vm_area_struct * vma, 
 * Application no longer needs these pages.  If the pages are dirty,

 * it's OK to just throw them away.  The app will be more careful about

 * data it wants to keep.  Be sure to free swap resources too.  The

 * zap_page_range call sets things up for refill_inactive to actually free

 * zap_page_range call sets things up for shrink_active_list to actually free

 * these pages later if no one else has touched them in the meantime,

 * although we could add these pages to a global reuse list for

 * refill_inactive to pick up before reclaiming other pages.

 * shrink_active_list to pick up before reclaiming other pages.

 *

 * NB: This interface discards data rather than pushes it out to swap,

 * as some implementations do.  This has performance implications for