mm: document why we don't set PageReadahead

If the page is already in cache, we don't set PageReadahead on it.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <[email protected]>
Cc: Chao Yu <[email protected]>
Cc: Cong Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
Cc: Gao Xiang <[email protected]>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: John Hubbard <[email protected]>
Cc: Joseph Qi <[email protected]>
Cc: Junxiao Bi <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Zi Yan <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <[email protected]>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/mm/readahead.c b/mm/readahead.c
index ae231a5312cb..73cb59ed5cff 100644
--- a/mm/readahead.c
+++ b/mm/readahead.c
@@ -195,9 +195,12 @@ void page_cache_readahead_unbounded(struct address_space *mapping,
 
 		if (page && !xa_is_value(page)) {
 			/*
-			 * Page already present?  Kick off the current batch of
-			 * contiguous pages before continuing with the next
-			 * batch.
+			 * Page already present?  Kick off the current batch
+			 * of contiguous pages before continuing with the
+			 * next batch.  This page may be the one we would
+			 * have intended to mark as Readahead, but we don't
+			 * have a stable reference to this page, and it's
+			 * not worth getting one just for that.
 			 */
 			read_pages(&rac, &page_pool, true);
 			continue;