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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-04-11 10:51:26 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-04-11 10:51:26 -0700
commit8837c70d531a1788f975c366c254a5cb973a5291 (patch)
treef7a719d01090efb3bc534f5b0d7f13ec87eecadb /Documentation/vm/page_migration
parentb284d4d5a6785f8cd07eda2646a95782373cd01e (diff)
parentb93b016313b3ba8003c3b8bb71f569af91f19fc7 (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton: - almost all of the rest of MM - kasan updates - lots of procfs work - misc things - lib/ updates - checkpatch - rapidio - ipc/shm updates - the start of willy's XArray conversion * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (140 commits) page cache: use xa_lock xarray: add the xa_lock to the radix_tree_root fscache: use appropriate radix tree accessors export __set_page_dirty unicore32: turn flush_dcache_mmap_lock into a no-op arm64: turn flush_dcache_mmap_lock into a no-op mac80211_hwsim: use DEFINE_IDA radix tree: use GFP_ZONEMASK bits of gfp_t for flags linux/const.h: refactor _BITUL and _BITULL a bit linux/const.h: move UL() macro to include/linux/const.h linux/const.h: prefix include guard of uapi/linux/const.h with _UAPI xen, mm: allow deferred page initialization for xen pv domains elf: enforce MAP_FIXED on overlaying elf segments fs, elf: drop MAP_FIXED usage from elf_map mm: introduce MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE MAINTAINERS: update bouncing aacraid@adaptec.com addresses fs/dcache.c: add cond_resched() in shrink_dentry_list() include/linux/kfifo.h: fix comment ipc/shm.c: shm_split(): remove unneeded test for NULL shm_file_data.vm_ops kernel/sysctl.c: add kdoc comments to do_proc_do{u}intvec_minmax_conv_param ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/page_migration b/Documentation/vm/page_migration
index 0478ae2ad44a..496868072e24 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/page_migration
+++ b/Documentation/vm/page_migration
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ Steps:
1. Lock the page to be migrated
-2. Insure that writeback is complete.
+2. Ensure that writeback is complete.
3. Lock the new page that we want to move to. It is locked so that accesses to
this (not yet uptodate) page immediately lock while the move is in progress.
@@ -100,8 +100,8 @@ Steps:
mapcount is not zero then we do not migrate the page. All user space
processes that attempt to access the page will now wait on the page lock.
-5. The radix tree lock is taken. This will cause all processes trying
- to access the page via the mapping to block on the radix tree spinlock.
+5. The i_pages lock is taken. This will cause all processes trying
+ to access the page via the mapping to block on the spinlock.
6. The refcount of the page is examined and we back out if references remain
otherwise we know that we are the only one referencing this page.
@@ -114,12 +114,12 @@ Steps:
9. The radix tree is changed to point to the new page.
-10. The reference count of the old page is dropped because the radix tree
+10. The reference count of the old page is dropped because the address space
reference is gone. A reference to the new page is established because
- the new page is referenced to by the radix tree.
+ the new page is referenced by the address space.
-11. The radix tree lock is dropped. With that lookups in the mapping
- become possible again. Processes will move from spinning on the tree_lock
+11. The i_pages lock is dropped. With that lookups in the mapping
+ become possible again. Processes will move from spinning on the lock
to sleeping on the locked new page.
12. The page contents are copied to the new page.