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mm/memory.c:do_shared_fault(): add comment

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Belatedly document the changes in commit f0c6d4d295 ("mm: introduce
do_shared_fault() and drop do_fault()").

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton 2014-12-18 16:17:29 -08:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
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@ -2996,6 +2996,12 @@ static int do_shared_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
if (set_page_dirty(fault_page)) if (set_page_dirty(fault_page))
dirtied = 1; dirtied = 1;
/*
* Take a local copy of the address_space - page.mapping may be zeroed
* by truncate after unlock_page(). The address_space itself remains
* pinned by vma->vm_file's reference. We rely on unlock_page()'s
* release semantics to prevent the compiler from undoing this copying.
*/
mapping = fault_page->mapping; mapping = fault_page->mapping;
unlock_page(fault_page); unlock_page(fault_page);
if ((dirtied || vma->vm_ops->page_mkwrite) && mapping) { if ((dirtied || vma->vm_ops->page_mkwrite) && mapping) {