[PATCH] mm: anon is already wrprotected

do_anonymous_page's pte_wrprotect causes some confusion: in such a case,
vm_page_prot must already be forcing COW, so must omit write permission, and
so the pte_wrprotect is redundant.  Replace it by a comment to that effect,
and reword the comment on unuse_pte which also caused confusion.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 1dcaeda039f..05c85129124 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -398,10 +398,9 @@ void free_swap_and_cache(swp_entry_t entry)
 }
 
 /*
- * Always set the resulting pte to be nowrite (the same as COW pages
- * after one process has exited).  We don't know just how many PTEs will
- * share this swap entry, so be cautious and let do_wp_page work out
- * what to do if a write is requested later.
+ * No need to decide whether this PTE shares the swap entry with others,
+ * just let do_wp_page work it out if a write is requested later - to
+ * force COW, vm_page_prot omits write permission from any private vma.
  *
  * vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock is held.
  */