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-rw-r--r--mm/swapfile.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 4a986127f15..84374d8cf81 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -2161,7 +2161,11 @@ void swap_shmem_alloc(swp_entry_t entry)
}
/*
- * increase reference count of swap entry by 1.
+ * Increase reference count of swap entry by 1.
+ * Returns 0 for success, or -ENOMEM if a swap_count_continuation is required
+ * but could not be atomically allocated. Returns 0, just as if it succeeded,
+ * if __swap_duplicate() fails for another reason (-EINVAL or -ENOENT), which
+ * might occur if a page table entry has got corrupted.
*/
int swap_duplicate(swp_entry_t entry)
{