mm: swap: add comment for swap_vma_readahead
authorYang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Tue, 5 Mar 2019 23:44:15 +0000 (15:44 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 6 Mar 2019 05:07:16 +0000 (21:07 -0800)
swap_vma_readahead()'s comment is missing, just add it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1546543673-108536-2-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/swap_state.c

index 56a3cc4..85245fd 100644 (file)
@@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ static unsigned long swapin_nr_pages(unsigned long offset)
  * This has been extended to use the NUMA policies from the mm triggering
  * the readahead.
  *
- * Caller must hold down_read on the vma->vm_mm if vmf->vma is not NULL.
+ * Caller must hold read mmap_sem if vmf->vma is not NULL.
  */
 struct page *swap_cluster_readahead(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask,
                                struct vm_fault *vmf)
@@ -698,6 +698,20 @@ static void swap_ra_info(struct vm_fault *vmf,
        pte_unmap(orig_pte);
 }
 
+/**
+ * swap_vma_readahead - swap in pages in hope we need them soon
+ * @entry: swap entry of this memory
+ * @gfp_mask: memory allocation flags
+ * @vmf: fault information
+ *
+ * Returns the struct page for entry and addr, after queueing swapin.
+ *
+ * Primitive swap readahead code. We simply read in a few pages whoes
+ * virtual addresses are around the fault address in the same vma.
+ *
+ * Caller must hold read mmap_sem if vmf->vma is not NULL.
+ *
+ */
 static struct page *swap_vma_readahead(swp_entry_t fentry, gfp_t gfp_mask,
                                       struct vm_fault *vmf)
 {