[PATCH -mm 02/14] bootmem: clean up bootmem.c file header



Change the description, move a misplaced comment about the allocator
itself and add me to the list of copyright holders.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---

mm/bootmem.c | 14 +++++---------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/bootmem.c
+++ b/mm/bootmem.c
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
/*
- * linux/mm/bootmem.c
+ * bootmem - A boot-time physical memory allocator and configurator
*
* Copyright (C) 1999 Ingo Molnar
- * Discontiguous memory support, Kanoj Sarcar, SGI, Nov 1999
+ * 1999 Kanoj Sarcar, SGI
+ * 2008 Johannes Weiner
*
- * simple boot-time physical memory area allocator and
- * free memory collector. It's used to deal with reserved
- * system memory and memory holes as well.
+ * Access to this subsystem has to be serialized externally (which is true
+ * for the boot process anyway).
*/
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/pfn.h>
@@ -19,10 +19,6 @@

#include "internal.h"

-/*
- * Access to this subsystem has to be serialized externally. (this is
- * true for the boot process anyway)
- */
unsigned long max_low_pfn;
unsigned long min_low_pfn;
unsigned long max_pfn;

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