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| author | Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> | 2016-05-20 16:58:07 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -0700 |
| commit | 89474d50a0d6b9a06e043351b4e658f4f0b6ee97 (patch) | |
| tree | f03600bcd0c9bd59eebda4785d014055ca86dff5 /Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt | |
| parent | 0c9ad804f178eae02a34045bb0916fa0e31623d5 (diff) | |
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Documentation: vm: fix spelling mistakes
Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt index fb0e1f2a19cc..7c871d6beb63 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ unaffected. libhugetlbfs will also work fine as usual. == Graceful fallback == -Code walking pagetables but unware about huge pmds can simply call +Code walking pagetables but unaware about huge pmds can simply call split_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, addr) where the pmd is the one returned by pmd_offset. It's trivial to make the code transparent hugepage aware by just grepping for "pmd_offset" and adding split_huge_pmd where @@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ tracking. The alternative is alter ->_mapcount in all subpages on each map/unmap of the whole compound page. We set PG_double_map when a PMD of the page got split for the first time, -but still have PMD mapping. The addtional references go away with last +but still have PMD mapping. The additional references go away with last compound_mapcount. split_huge_page internally has to distribute the refcounts in the head @@ -432,10 +432,10 @@ page->_mapcount. We safe against physical memory scanners too: the only legitimate way scanner can get reference to a page is get_page_unless_zero(). -All tail pages has zero ->_refcount until atomic_add(). It prevent scanner -from geting reference to tail page up to the point. After the atomic_add() -we don't care about ->_refcount value. We already known how many references -with should uncharge from head page. +All tail pages have zero ->_refcount until atomic_add(). This prevents the +scanner from getting a reference to the tail page up to that point. After the +atomic_add() we don't care about the ->_refcount value. We already known how +many references should be uncharged from the head page. For head page get_page_unless_zero() will succeed and we don't mind. It's clear where reference should go after split: it will stay on head page. |