Re: very small code cleanup

From: Paulo Marques
Date: Tue Nov 07 2006 - 09:59:26 EST


Rik Bobbaers wrote:
hey all,

in mm/mlock.c , mm is defined as vma->vm_mm, why not use that one for the decrement of pages?

Because vma can change here:

if (*prev) {
vma = *prev;
goto success;
}

and then mm won't be the same as vma->vm_mm..

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