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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2013-05-05 08:24:42 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2013-05-05 08:27:03 +0200 |
| commit | f99e44a7f3352d7131c7526207f153f13ec5acd4 (patch) | |
| tree | 0f448b21128c478053ee7f7765b865954c4eebe8 /mm/migrate.c | |
| parent | fd29f424d458118f02e89596505c68a63dcb3007 (diff) | |
| parent | ce857229e0c3adc211944a13a5579ef84fd7b4af (diff) | |
Merge branch 'linus' into core/urgent
Update with Linus tree so fixes for the same can be applied.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/migrate.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/migrate.c | 24 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c index 3bbaf5d230b0..27ed22579fd9 100644 --- a/mm/migrate.c +++ b/mm/migrate.c @@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ static int __unmap_and_move(struct page *page, struct page *newpage, if (PageWriteback(page)) { /* - * Only in the case of a full syncronous migration is it + * Only in the case of a full synchronous migration is it * necessary to wait for PageWriteback. In the async case, * the retry loop is too short and in the sync-light case, * the overhead of stalling is too much @@ -973,19 +973,23 @@ out: } /* - * migrate_pages + * migrate_pages - migrate the pages specified in a list, to the free pages + * supplied as the target for the page migration * - * The function takes one list of pages to migrate and a function - * that determines from the page to be migrated and the private data - * the target of the move and allocates the page. + * @from: The list of pages to be migrated. + * @get_new_page: The function used to allocate free pages to be used + * as the target of the page migration. + * @private: Private data to be passed on to get_new_page() + * @mode: The migration mode that specifies the constraints for + * page migration, if any. + * @reason: The reason for page migration. * - * The function returns after 10 attempts or if no pages - * are movable anymore because to has become empty - * or no retryable pages exist anymore. - * Caller should call putback_lru_pages to return pages to the LRU + * The function returns after 10 attempts or if no pages are movable any more + * because the list has become empty or no retryable pages exist any more. + * The caller should call putback_lru_pages() to return pages to the LRU * or free list only if ret != 0. * - * Return: Number of pages not migrated or error code. + * Returns the number of pages that were not migrated, or an error code. */ int migrate_pages(struct list_head *from, new_page_t get_new_page, unsigned long private, enum migrate_mode mode, int reason) |