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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2011-11-01 01:08:54 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-11-01 01:30:49 +0100
commit20c8c62891a346e09c8d26de41ce78bd7a76c5b0 (patch)
tree6e0a81457ee2c142f96e6e3db66c479eac21fc4a
parentksm: fix the comment of try_to_unmap_one() (diff)
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mm-add-comment-explaining-task-state-setting-in-bdi_forker_thread-fix
fiddle wording Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--mm/backing-dev.c5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
index a87da524a4a0..7520ef0bfd47 100644
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -404,9 +404,8 @@ static int bdi_forker_thread(void *ptr)
/*
* In the following loop we are going to check whether we have
* some work to do without any synchronization with tasks
- * waking us up to do work for them. So we have to set task
- * state already here so that we don't miss wakeups coming
- * after we verify some condition.
+ * waking us up to do work for them. Set the task state here
+ * so that we don't miss wakeups after verifying conditions.
*/
set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);