Commit 9d414152 authored by Nick Piggin's avatar Nick Piggin Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mm: page_state comment more

Clarify that preemption needs to be guarded against with the
__xxx_page_state functions.
Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 8dfcc9ba
......@@ -86,8 +86,9 @@
* - The __xxx_page_state variants can be used safely when interrupts are
* disabled.
* - The __xxx_page_state variants can be used if the field is only
* modified from process context, or only modified from interrupt context.
* In this case, the field should be commented here.
* modified from process context and protected from preemption, or only
* modified from interrupt context. In this case, the field should be
* commented here.
*/
struct page_state {
unsigned long nr_dirty; /* Dirty writeable pages */
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