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-rw-r--r--include/linux/page-flags.h5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
index 8cef69d462f..9ea629c02a4 100644
--- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
+++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -86,8 +86,9 @@
* - The __xxx_page_state variants can be used safely when interrupts are
* disabled.
* - The __xxx_page_state variants can be used if the field is only
- * modified from process context, or only modified from interrupt context.
- * In this case, the field should be commented here.
+ * modified from process context and protected from preemption, or only
+ * modified from interrupt context. In this case, the field should be
+ * commented here.
*/
struct page_state {
unsigned long nr_dirty; /* Dirty writeable pages */