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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmscan.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 613e89f471d..359c3c57ef8 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1709,10 +1709,10 @@ static void shrink_zones(int priority, struct zonelist *zonelist, * * If the caller is !__GFP_FS then the probability of a failure is reasonably * high - the zone may be full of dirty or under-writeback pages, which this - * caller can't do much about. We kick pdflush and take explicit naps in the - * hope that some of these pages can be written. But if the allocating task - * holds filesystem locks which prevent writeout this might not work, and the - * allocation attempt will fail. + * caller can't do much about. We kick the writeback threads and take explicit + * naps in the hope that some of these pages can be written. But if the + * allocating task holds filesystem locks which prevent writeout this might not + * work, and the allocation attempt will fail. * * returns: 0, if no pages reclaimed * else, the number of pages reclaimed |