[PATCH 08/11] Fix comment about remap_file_pages

[Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>]

This comment is a bit unclear and also stale. So fix it. Thanks to Hugh Dickins
for explaining me what it really referred to, and correcting my first fix.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
---

 mm/fremap.c |    7 ++++---
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/fremap.c b/mm/fremap.c
index f571674..6cb2cc5 100644
--- a/mm/fremap.c
+++ b/mm/fremap.c
@@ -200,9 +200,10 @@ asmlinkage long sys_remap_file_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned long size,
 	}
 
 	/*
-	 * We can't clear VM_NONLINEAR because we'd have to do
-	 * it after ->populate completes, and that would prevent
-	 * downgrading the lock.  (Locks can't be upgraded).
+	 * We would like to clear VM_NONLINEAR, in the case when
+	 * sys_remap_file_pages covers the whole vma, so making
+	 * it linear again.  But cannot do so until after a
+	 * successful populate, and have no way to upgrade sem.
 	 */
 
 out:



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