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 <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index f5b5f029288c6028b61a38304c5d78149d849480..5be8107e77580d2fdb9506104c7527812edc206b 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -286,6 +286,11 @@ static inline int page_mapping_inuse(struct page *page)
 
 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;
 }