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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mlock.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/mlock.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c index b1eb53634005..ce84cb0b83ef 100644 --- a/mm/mlock.c +++ b/mm/mlock.c @@ -210,12 +210,19 @@ out: * @vma: target vma * @start: start address * @end: end address + * @nonblocking: * * This takes care of making the pages present too. * * return 0 on success, negative error code on error. * - * vma->vm_mm->mmap_sem must be held for at least read. + * vma->vm_mm->mmap_sem must be held. + * + * If @nonblocking is NULL, it may be held for read or write and will + * be unperturbed. + * + * If @nonblocking is non-NULL, it must held for read only and may be + * released. If it's released, *@nonblocking will be set to 0. */ long __mlock_vma_pages_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int *nonblocking) |