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authorJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2009-09-23 19:37:09 +0200
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2009-09-25 18:08:25 +0200
commit5b0830cb9085f4b69f9d57d7f3aaff322ffbec26 (patch)
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parent71fd05a887e0f3f6bfff76ff81b33776177d0606 (diff)
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writeback: get rid to incorrect references to pdflush in comments
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 613e89f471d9..359c3c57ef85 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1709,10 +1709,10 @@ static void shrink_zones(int priority, struct zonelist *zonelist,
*
* If the caller is !__GFP_FS then the probability of a failure is reasonably
* high - the zone may be full of dirty or under-writeback pages, which this
- * caller can't do much about. We kick pdflush and take explicit naps in the
- * hope that some of these pages can be written. But if the allocating task
- * holds filesystem locks which prevent writeout this might not work, and the
- * allocation attempt will fail.
+ * caller can't do much about. We kick the writeback threads and take explicit
+ * naps in the hope that some of these pages can be written. But if the
+ * allocating task holds filesystem locks which prevent writeout this might not
+ * work, and the allocation attempt will fail.
*
* returns: 0, if no pages reclaimed
* else, the number of pages reclaimed