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| author |   Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> | 2010-12-13 09:29:52 +0100 |
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| committer | Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> | 2010-12-13 09:29:52 +0100 |
| commit | 354d14b3f53cc749c5d26d4ba7280d1e931d6bc4 (patch) | |
| tree | 59b597e44902d8db8bde7deac1e7e707327c6fe6 /Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | |
| parent | ALSA: aoa: Remove wrong i2c_set_clientdata in onyx_i2c_remove() (diff) | |
| parent | sound: don't use flush_scheduled_work() (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'topic/workq-update' into topic/misc
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index ed7e5efc06d8..55c28b79d8dc 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -660,11 +660,10 @@ struct address_space_operations { releasepage: releasepage is called on PagePrivate pages to indicate that the page should be freed if possible. ->releasepage should remove any private data from the page and clear the - PagePrivate flag. It may also remove the page from the - address_space. If this fails for some reason, it may indicate - failure with a 0 return value. - This is used in two distinct though related cases. The first - is when the VM finds a clean page with no active users and + PagePrivate flag. If releasepage() fails for some reason, it must + indicate failure with a 0 return value. + releasepage() is used in two distinct though related cases. The + first is when the VM finds a clean page with no active users and wants to make it a free page. If ->releasepage succeeds, the page will be removed from the address_space and become free. |