From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 17:03:20 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap Subject: [PATCH] remap_file_pages: kernel-doc corrections Message-Id: <20071008170320.eb123276.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org From: Randy Dunlap Return-Path: To: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: akpm , nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au List-ID: Fix kernel-doc for sys_remap_file_pages() and add info to the __prot NOTE. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap --- mm/fremap.c | 20 +++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.23-rc9-git3.orig/mm/fremap.c +++ linux-2.6.23-rc9-git3/mm/fremap.c @@ -97,23 +97,25 @@ static int populate_range(struct mm_stru } -/*** - * sys_remap_file_pages - remap arbitrary pages of a shared backing store - * file within an existing vma. +/** + * sys_remap_file_pages - remap arbitrary pages of a shared backing store file * @start: start of the remapped virtual memory range * @size: size of the remapped virtual memory range - * @prot: new protection bits of the range - * @pgoff: to be mapped page of the backing store file + * @__prot: new protection bits of the range (see NOTE) + * @pgoff: to-be-mapped page of the backing store file * @flags: 0 or MAP_NONBLOCKED - the later will cause no IO. * - * this syscall works purely via pagetables, so it's the most efficient + * sys_remap_file_pages remaps arbitrary pages of a shared backing store file + * within an existing vma. + * + * This syscall works purely via pagetables, so it's the most efficient * way to map the same (large) file into a given virtual window. Unlike * mmap()/mremap() it does not create any new vmas. The new mappings are * also safe across swapout. * - * NOTE: the 'prot' parameter right now is ignored, and the vma's default - * protection is used. Arbitrary protections might be implemented in the - * future. + * NOTE: the '__prot' parameter right now is ignored (but must be zero), + * and the vma's default protection is used. Arbitrary protections + * might be implemented in the future. */ asmlinkage long sys_remap_file_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned long size, unsigned long __prot, unsigned long pgoff, unsigned long flags) -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org