mm: document is_page_cache_freeable() Enlighten the reader of this code about what reference count makes a page cache page freeable. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index f5b5f02..5be8107 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -286,6 +286,11 @@ static inline int is_page_cache_freeable(struct page *page) { + /* + * A freeable page cache page is referenced only by the caller + * that isolated the page, the page cache radix tree and + * optional buffer heads at page->private. + */ return page_count(page) - page_has_private(page) == 2; }