From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 06:42:27 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: [PATCH] update filemap_flush() comments
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.4-rc3~30^2~2
X-Git-Url: http://git.neil.brown.name/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ecad96d53e6056d1bc2c1badec28b4ac68503fe9;p=history.git

[PATCH] update filemap_flush() comments

It provides a best-effort, minimum-latency "get all the writeout
underway" function.
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diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 6205d0bbe2b2..b73b39fe06a1 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(filemap_fdatawrite);
 
 /*
  * This is a mostly non-blocking flush.  Not suitable for data-integrity
- * purposes.
+ * purposes - I/O may not be started against all dirty pages.
  */
 int filemap_flush(struct address_space *mapping)
 {