linux-kernel - [PATCH] swapfile/vmscan: update comments related to vmscan functions

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Date:	Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:49:30 +0900
From:	Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao 
	<fernando@....ntt.co.jp>
To:	cl@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] swapfile/vmscan: update comments related to vmscan
	functions

Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@....ntt.co.jp>
---

diff -urNp linux-2.6.26/mm/swapfile.c linux-2.6.26-fixes/mm/swapfile.c
--- linux-2.6.26/mm/swapfile.c	2008-07-14 06:51:29.000000000 +0900
+++ linux-2.6.26-fixes/mm/swapfile.c	2008-07-28 20:42:46.000000000 +0900
@@ -655,8 +655,8 @@ static int unuse_mm(struct mm_struct *mm
 
 	if (!down_read_trylock(&mm->mmap_sem)) {
 		/*
-		 * Activate page so shrink_cache is unlikely to unmap its
-		 * ptes while lock is dropped, so swapoff can make progress.
+		 * Activate page so shrink_inactive_list is unlikely to unmap
+		 * its ptes while lock is dropped, so swapoff can make progress.
 		 */
 		activate_page(page);
 		unlock_page(page);
diff -urNp linux-2.6.26/mm/vmscan.c linux-2.6.26-fixes/mm/vmscan.c
--- linux-2.6.26/mm/vmscan.c	2008-07-14 06:51:29.000000000 +0900
+++ linux-2.6.26-fixes/mm/vmscan.c	2008-07-28 20:39:38.000000000 +0900
@@ -1940,7 +1940,7 @@ module_init(kswapd_init)
 int zone_reclaim_mode __read_mostly;
 
 #define RECLAIM_OFF 0
-#define RECLAIM_ZONE (1<<0)	/* Run shrink_cache on the zone */
+#define RECLAIM_ZONE (1<<0)	/* Run shrink_inactive_list on the zone */
 #define RECLAIM_WRITE (1<<1)	/* Writeout pages during reclaim */
 #define RECLAIM_SWAP (1<<2)	/* Swap pages out during reclaim */
 


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