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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2005-09-06 15:16:57 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-09-07 16:57:23 -0700
commitcdb3826b9958c204bc8ffda2cf9bbe2d899ef90c (patch)
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parentedf83015fcbff8976b75b42b565a77e9d450c567 (diff)
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[PATCH] remove misleading comment above sys_brk
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-rw-r--r--mm/mmap.c7
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index bb43340d3973..12334aecf8ad 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -203,13 +203,6 @@ static void remove_vm_struct(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma);
}
-/*
- * sys_brk() for the most part doesn't need the global kernel
- * lock, except when an application is doing something nasty
- * like trying to un-brk an area that has already been mapped
- * to a regular file. in this case, the unmapping will need
- * to invoke file system routines that need the global lock.
- */
asmlinkage unsigned long sys_brk(unsigned long brk)
{
unsigned long rlim, retval;