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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mm_types.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm_types.h | 13 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h index 27973166af28..c2294e6204e8 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h @@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ struct hmm; * a page, though if it is a pagecache page, rmap structures can tell us * who is mapping it. * - * The objects in struct page are organized in double word blocks in - * order to allows us to use atomic double word operations on portions - * of struct page. That is currently only used by slub but the arrangement - * allows the use of atomic double word operations on the flags/mapping - * and lru list pointers also. + * SLUB uses cmpxchg_double() to atomically update its freelist and + * counters. That requires that freelist & counters be adjacent and + * double-word aligned. We align all struct pages to double-word + * boundaries, and ensure that 'freelist' is aligned within the + * struct. */ #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE #define _struct_page_alignment __aligned(2 * sizeof(unsigned long)) @@ -113,8 +113,6 @@ struct page { }; /* - * Third double word block - * * WARNING: bit 0 of the first word encode PageTail(). That means * the rest users of the storage space MUST NOT use the bit to * avoid collision and false-positive PageTail(). @@ -175,7 +173,6 @@ struct page { #endif }; - /* Remainder is not double word aligned */ union { unsigned long private; /* Mapping-private opaque data: * usually used for buffer_heads |