[PATCH 5/6] mm/page_io: refer to folios in swap_writeout() comments

From: Tal Zussman

Date: Thu Aug 06 2026 - 18:58:00 EST


swap_writeout() operates on folios, not pages. Update its comments
accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Tal Zussman <tz2294@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_io.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_io.c b/mm/page_io.c
index 8573f7b8967a..b18d3b7d853c 100644
--- a/mm/page_io.c
+++ b/mm/page_io.c
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ int swap_writeout(struct swap_io_ctx *ctx, struct folio *folio)
goto out_unlock;

/*
- * Arch code may have to preserve more data than just the page
+ * Arch code may have to preserve more data than just the folio
* contents, e.g. memory tags.
*/
ret = arch_prepare_to_swap(folio);
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ int swap_writeout(struct swap_io_ctx *ctx, struct folio *folio)

/*
* Use the swap table zero mark to avoid doing IO for zero-filled
- * pages. The zero mark is protected by the cluster lock, which is
+ * folios. The zero mark is protected by the cluster lock, which is
* acquired internally by swap_zeromap_folio_set/clear.
*/
if (is_folio_zero_filled(folio)) {

--
2.39.5