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proc: fixup comment

PATCH Applied Alexey Dobriyan 1 participant 1 message Jan 3, 2018 Proc filesystem

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PATCH 1/1 proc: fixup comment

Document what ->pde_unload_lock actually does.

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 fs/proc/internal.h |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
fs/proc/internal.h +2 -1
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ struct proc_dir_entry {
 	atomic_t in_use;
 	atomic_t count;		/* use count */
 	struct list_head pde_openers;	/* who did ->open, but not ->release */
-	spinlock_t pde_unload_lock; /* proc_fops checks and pde_users bumps */
+	/* protects ->pde_openers and all struct pde_opener instances */
+	spinlock_t pde_unload_lock;
 	struct completion *pde_unload_completion;
 	const struct inode_operations *proc_iops;
 	const struct file_operations *proc_fops;