Commit 605d9288 authored by Hugh Dickins's avatar Hugh Dickins Committed by Linus Torvalds

mm: VM_flags comment fixes

Try to comment away a little of the confusion between mm's vm_area_struct
vm_flags and vmalloc's vm_struct flags: based on an idea by Ulrich Drepper.
Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 71ef2a46
...@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp); ...@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp);
#endif #endif
/* /*
* vm_flags.. * vm_flags in vm_area_struct, see mm_types.h.
*/ */
#define VM_READ 0x00000001 /* currently active flags */ #define VM_READ 0x00000001 /* currently active flags */
#define VM_WRITE 0x00000002 #define VM_WRITE 0x00000002
......
...@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct { ...@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct {
struct vm_area_struct *vm_next; struct vm_area_struct *vm_next;
pgprot_t vm_page_prot; /* Access permissions of this VMA. */ pgprot_t vm_page_prot; /* Access permissions of this VMA. */
unsigned long vm_flags; /* Flags, listed below. */ unsigned long vm_flags; /* Flags, see mm.h. */
struct rb_node vm_rb; struct rb_node vm_rb;
......
...@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ ...@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
#include <linux/spinlock.h> #include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <asm/page.h> /* pgprot_t */ #include <asm/page.h> /* pgprot_t */
struct vm_area_struct; struct vm_area_struct; /* vma defining user mapping in mm_types.h */
/* bits in vm_struct->flags */ /* bits in flags of vmalloc's vm_struct below */
#define VM_IOREMAP 0x00000001 /* ioremap() and friends */ #define VM_IOREMAP 0x00000001 /* ioremap() and friends */
#define VM_ALLOC 0x00000002 /* vmalloc() */ #define VM_ALLOC 0x00000002 /* vmalloc() */
#define VM_MAP 0x00000004 /* vmap()ed pages */ #define VM_MAP 0x00000004 /* vmap()ed pages */
......
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