Merge branches 'work.misc' and 'work.dcache' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux...

[sfrench/cifs-2.6.git] / mm / hugetlb.c

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 039ddbc574e926800f9104ede90782753605f46b..3103099f64fd89dadc9b3acee9744602ca1fcc05 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -3167,6 +3167,13 @@ static vm_fault_t hugetlb_vm_op_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
        return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * When a new function is introduced to vm_operations_struct and added
+ * to hugetlb_vm_ops, please consider adding the function to shm_vm_ops.
+ * This is because under System V memory model, mappings created via
+ * shmget/shmat with "huge page" specified are backed by hugetlbfs files,
+ * their original vm_ops are overwritten with shm_vm_ops.
+ */
 const struct vm_operations_struct hugetlb_vm_ops = {
        .fault = hugetlb_vm_op_fault,
        .open = hugetlb_vm_op_open,