x86: cpa, fix out of date comment

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
git-mirror · Feb 14, 2008 · f8d8406 · f8d8406
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commit f8d8406
Showing 1 changed file with 6 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -870,8 +870,12 @@ void kernel_map_pages(struct page *page, int numpages, int enable)
 		return;
 
 	/*
-	 * The return value is ignored - the calls cannot fail,
-	 * large pages are disabled at boot time:
+	 * The return value is ignored as the calls cannot fail.
+	 * Large pages are kept enabled at boot time, and are
+	 * split up quickly with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. If a splitup
+	 * fails here (due to temporary memory shortage) no damage
+	 * is done because we just keep the largepage intact up
+	 * to the next attempt when it will likely be split up:
 	 */
 	if (enable)
 		__set_pages_p(page, numpages);