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authorVegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>2017-02-27 14:30:16 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-02-27 18:43:48 -0800
commitb279ddc3382426f8e05068de3488a2993f68dc26 (patch)
treef1d5eb73fd31c7e34856e8d581e3a9a3f1ffa17d
parent388f79345502232d335467e8fa6f8e55a18844e1 (diff)
downloadlinux-b279ddc3382426f8e05068de3488a2993f68dc26.tar.gz
mm: clarify mm_struct.mm_{users,count} documentation
Clarify documentation relating to mm_users and mm_count, and switch to
kernel-doc syntax.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161218123229.22952-4-vegard.nossum@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm_types.h23
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index 808751d7b737..4f6d440ad785 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -407,8 +407,27 @@ struct mm_struct {
 	unsigned long task_size;		/* size of task vm space */
 	unsigned long highest_vm_end;		/* highest vma end address */
 	pgd_t * pgd;
-	atomic_t mm_users;			/* How many users with user space? */
-	atomic_t mm_count;			/* How many references to "struct mm_struct" (users count as 1) */
+
+	/**
+	 * @mm_users: The number of users including userspace.
+	 *
+	 * Use mmget()/mmget_not_zero()/mmput() to modify. When this drops
+	 * to 0 (i.e. when the task exits and there are no other temporary
+	 * reference holders), we also release a reference on @mm_count
+	 * (which may then free the &struct mm_struct if @mm_count also
+	 * drops to 0).
+	 */
+	atomic_t mm_users;
+
+	/**
+	 * @mm_count: The number of references to &struct mm_struct
+	 * (@mm_users count as 1).
+	 *
+	 * Use mmgrab()/mmdrop() to modify. When this drops to 0, the
+	 * &struct mm_struct is freed.
+	 */
+	atomic_t mm_count;
+
 	atomic_long_t nr_ptes;			/* PTE page table pages */
 #if CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS > 2
 	atomic_long_t nr_pmds;			/* PMD page table pages */