From c0a499c2c42992cff097b38be29d2ba60d2fd99a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 20:31:39 -0800
Subject: [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>
---
 mm/hugetlb.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

(limited to 'mm')

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index a088f593a807..f7355bf2f285 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/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));
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