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| author |   Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> | 2016-05-19 17:10:49 -0700 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-05-19 19:12:14 -0700 |
| commit | 0139aa7b7fa12ceef095d99dc36606a5b10ab83a (patch) | |
| tree | 94da74f2f79911a11a3c7c34f73ba971dec41a7e /mm/page_alloc.c | |
| parent | mm/page_ref: use page_ref helper instead of direct modification of _count (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-0139aa7b7fa12ceef095d99dc36606a5b10ab83a.tar.xz linux-dev-0139aa7b7fa12ceef095d99dc36606a5b10ab83a.zip | |
mm: rename _count, field of the struct page, to _refcount
Many developers already know that field for reference count of the
struct page is _count and atomic type. They would try to handle it
directly and this could break the purpose of page reference count
tracepoint. To prevent direct _count modification, this patch rename it
to _refcount and add warning message on the code. After that, developer
who need to handle reference count will find that field should not be
accessed directly.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comments, per Vlastimil]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt too]
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: sync ethernet driver changes]
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@cavium.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: Manish Chopra <manish.chopra@qlogic.com>
Cc: Yuval Mintz <yuval.mintz@qlogic.com>
Cc: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index c1069efcc4d7..4ce57f938b7f 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -794,7 +794,7 @@ static inline int free_pages_check(struct page *page) if (unlikely(page->mapping != NULL)) bad_reason = "non-NULL mapping"; if (unlikely(page_ref_count(page) != 0)) - bad_reason = "nonzero _count"; + bad_reason = "nonzero _refcount"; if (unlikely(page->flags & PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE)) { bad_reason = "PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE flag(s) set"; bad_flags = PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE; @@ -6864,7 +6864,7 @@ bool has_unmovable_pages(struct zone *zone, struct page *page, int count, * We can't use page_count without pin a page * because another CPU can free compound page. * This check already skips compound tails of THP - * because their page->_count is zero at all time. + * because their page->_refcount is zero at all time. */ if (!page_ref_count(page)) { if (PageBuddy(page)) |