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authorKautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@gmail.com>2012-03-21 16:34:16 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-03-21 17:55:00 -0700
commit88f6b4c32e531dc5b06bd05144f790847a1fdaeb (patch)
tree751d07060432fe32200d7849e7901082968b3e51 /mm
parentd71b5a73fe9af42752c4329b087f7911b35f8f79 (diff)
mmap.c: fix comment for __insert_vm_struct()
The comment above __insert_vm_struct seems to suggest that this function is also going to link the VMA with the anon_vma, but this is not true. This function only links the VMA to the mm->mm_rb tree and the mm->mmap linked list. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: improve comment layout and text] Signed-off-by: Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@gmail.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/mmap.c5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index a19cc271e794..230f0bac06b6 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -451,9 +451,8 @@ static void vma_link(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
}
/*
- * Helper for vma_adjust in the split_vma insert case:
- * insert vm structure into list and rbtree and anon_vma,
- * but it has already been inserted into prio_tree earlier.
+ * Helper for vma_adjust() in the split_vma insert case: insert a vma into the
+ * mm's list and rbtree. It has already been inserted into the prio_tree.
*/
static void __insert_vm_struct(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{