[PATCH 3/3] mm: thp: split_huge_pmd_address() comment improvement

From: Andrea Arcangeli
Date: Fri May 06 2016 - 11:04:12 EST


Comment is partly wrong, this improves it by including the case of
split_huge_pmd_address() called by try_to_unmap_one if
TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD is set.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/huge_memory.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 9086793..1fbe13d 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -3031,8 +3031,10 @@ void split_huge_pmd_address(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
return;

/*
- * Caller holds the mmap_sem write mode, so a huge pmd cannot
- * materialize from under us.
+ * Caller holds the mmap_sem write mode or the anon_vma lock,
+ * so a huge pmd cannot materialize from under us (khugepaged
+ * holds both the mmap_sem write mode and the anon_vma lock
+ * write mode).
*/
__split_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, address, freeze);
}