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| author |   Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> | 2018-01-31 16:18:55 -0800 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-01-31 17:18:38 -0800 |
| commit | b26435a0115b245ea2dd705efcce877ec417bc74 (patch) | |
| tree | a195dd21d5de4d8c47b1967cb866e19990fc0655 /include/linux/mm_types.h | |
| parent | mm: remove misleading alignment claims (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-b26435a0115b245ea2dd705efcce877ec417bc74.tar.xz linux-dev-b26435a0115b245ea2dd705efcce877ec417bc74.zip | |
mm: improve comment on page->mapping
The comment on page->mapping is terse, and out of date (it does not
mention the possibility of PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE). Instead, point the
interested reader to page-flags.h where there is a much better comment.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171220155552.15884-5-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mm_types.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm_types.h | 12 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h index c2294e6204e8..8c3b8cea22ee 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h @@ -50,15 +50,9 @@ struct page { unsigned long flags; /* Atomic flags, some possibly * updated asynchronously */ union { - struct address_space *mapping; /* If low bit clear, points to - * inode address_space, or NULL. - * If page mapped as anonymous - * memory, low bit is set, and - * it points to anon_vma object - * or KSM private structure. See - * PAGE_MAPPING_ANON and - * PAGE_MAPPING_KSM. - */ + /* See page-flags.h for the definition of PAGE_MAPPING_FLAGS */ + struct address_space *mapping; + void *s_mem; /* slab first object */ atomic_t compound_mapcount; /* first tail page */ /* page_deferred_list().next -- second tail page */ |