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mm/filemap.c: correct the comment about VM_FAULT_RETRY 

Commit 6b4c9f4469 ("filemap: drop the mmap_sem for all blocking
operations") changed when mmap_sem is dropped during filemap page fault
and when returning VM_FAULT_RETRY.

Correct the comment to reflect the change.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1556234531-108228-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
alistair/sunxi64-5.4-dsi
Yang Shi 2019-07-11 20:55:29 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent f053cbd436
commit a498583388
1 changed files with 2 additions and 4 deletions
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@ -2504,10 +2504,8 @@ static struct file *do_async_mmap_readahead(struct vm_fault *vmf,
*
* vma->vm_mm->mmap_sem must be held on entry.
*
* If our return value has VM_FAULT_RETRY set, it's because
* lock_page_or_retry() returned 0.
* The mmap_sem has usually been released in this case.
* See __lock_page_or_retry() for the exception.
* If our return value has VM_FAULT_RETRY set, it's because the mmap_sem
* may be dropped before doing I/O or by lock_page_maybe_drop_mmap().
*
* If our return value does not have VM_FAULT_RETRY set, the mmap_sem
* has not been released.