TOMOYO: Add description of lists and structures.

This patch adds some descriptions of lists and structures.
This patch contains no code changes.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/security/tomoyo/realpath.c b/security/tomoyo/realpath.c
index 3948f6b56ae2..5f2e33263371 100644
--- a/security/tomoyo/realpath.c
+++ b/security/tomoyo/realpath.c
@@ -265,7 +265,16 @@ static unsigned int tomoyo_quota_for_savename;
  */
 #define TOMOYO_MAX_HASH 256
 
-/* Structure for string data. */
+/*
+ * tomoyo_name_entry is a structure which is used for linking
+ * "struct tomoyo_path_info" into tomoyo_name_list .
+ *
+ * Since tomoyo_name_list manages a list of strings which are shared by
+ * multiple processes (whereas "struct tomoyo_path_info" inside
+ * "struct tomoyo_path_info_with_data" is not shared), a reference counter will
+ * be added to "struct tomoyo_name_entry" rather than "struct tomoyo_path_info"
+ * when TOMOYO starts supporting garbage collector.
+ */
 struct tomoyo_name_entry {
 	struct list_head list;
 	struct tomoyo_path_info entry;
@@ -279,10 +288,10 @@ struct tomoyo_free_memory_block_list {
 };
 
 /*
- * The list for "struct tomoyo_name_entry".
- *
- * This list is updated only inside tomoyo_save_name(), thus
- * no global mutex exists.
+ * tomoyo_name_list is used for holding string data used by TOMOYO.
+ * Since same string data is likely used for multiple times (e.g.
+ * "/lib/libc-2.5.so"), TOMOYO shares string data in the form of
+ * "const struct tomoyo_path_info *".
  */
 static struct list_head tomoyo_name_list[TOMOYO_MAX_HASH];