Try to comment away a little of the confusion between mm's vm_area_struct
vm_flags and vmalloc's vm_struct flags: based on an idea by Ulrich Drepper.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
#endif
/*
- * vm_flags..
+ * vm_flags in vm_area_struct, see mm_types.h.
*/
#define VM_READ 0x00000001 /* currently active flags */
#define VM_WRITE 0x00000002
struct vm_area_struct *vm_next;
pgprot_t vm_page_prot; /* Access permissions of this VMA. */
- unsigned long vm_flags; /* Flags, listed below. */
+ unsigned long vm_flags; /* Flags, see mm.h. */
struct rb_node vm_rb;
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <asm/page.h> /* pgprot_t */
-struct vm_area_struct;
+struct vm_area_struct; /* vma defining user mapping in mm_types.h */
-/* bits in vm_struct->flags */
+/* bits in flags of vmalloc's vm_struct below */
#define VM_IOREMAP 0x00000001 /* ioremap() and friends */
#define VM_ALLOC 0x00000002 /* vmalloc() */
#define VM_MAP 0x00000004 /* vmap()ed pages */