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mm: add comment on storage key dirty bit semantics

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Add comments that dirty bit in storage key gets set whenever page content
is changed.  Hopefully if someone will use this function, he'll have a
look at one of the two places where we comment on this.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jan Kara 2012-12-11 16:01:09 -08:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 712cd386fd
commit e749eb9553
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@ -1151,9 +1151,11 @@ void page_remove_rmap(struct page *page)
* containing the swap entry, but page not yet written to swap.
*
* And we can skip it on file pages, so long as the filesystem
* participates in dirty tracking; but need to catch shm and tmpfs
* and ramfs pages which have been modified since creation by read
* fault.
* participates in dirty tracking (note that this is not only an
* optimization but also solves problems caused by dirty flag in
* storage key getting set by a write from inside kernel); but need to
* catch shm and tmpfs and ramfs pages which have been modified since
* creation by read fault.
*
* Note that mapping must be decided above, before decrementing
* mapcount (which luckily provides a barrier): once page is unmapped,