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authorBrian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>2014-08-19 11:57:23 -0700
committerBrian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>2014-08-19 11:57:23 -0700
commit5b49ab3e03f68eb49db4bce6290e5707b7f6c6f3 (patch)
tree090c7c069bc6c0f2b368ed8d0af861c275525411 /mm/mlock.c
parentb25046b1e5e3f1423434da77ccc859f2f779d1ce (diff)
parent54ea17a597b00e46b3720e75dd7595cd5dfa5670 (diff)
Merge l2-mtd/next into l2-mtd/master
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mlock.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/mlock.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c
index b1eb53634005..ce84cb0b83ef 100644
--- a/mm/mlock.c
+++ b/mm/mlock.c
@@ -210,12 +210,19 @@ out:
* @vma: target vma
* @start: start address
* @end: end address
+ * @nonblocking:
*
* This takes care of making the pages present too.
*
* return 0 on success, negative error code on error.
*
- * vma->vm_mm->mmap_sem must be held for at least read.
+ * vma->vm_mm->mmap_sem must be held.
+ *
+ * If @nonblocking is NULL, it may be held for read or write and will
+ * be unperturbed.
+ *
+ * If @nonblocking is non-NULL, it must held for read only and may be
+ * released. If it's released, *@nonblocking will be set to 0.
*/
long __mlock_vma_pages_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int *nonblocking)