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| author | Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> | 2016-05-20 02:10:49 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-05-20 04:12:14 +0200 |
| commit | 0139aa7b7fa12ceef095d99dc36606a5b10ab83a (patch) | |
| tree | 94da74f2f79911a11a3c7c34f73ba971dec41a7e /fs/proc | |
| parent | mm/page_ref: use page_ref helper instead of direct modification of _count (diff) | |
| download | linux-0139aa7b7fa12ceef095d99dc36606a5b10ab83a.tar.xz linux-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 'fs/proc')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/proc/page.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/page.c b/fs/proc/page.c index 712f1b9992cc..3ecd445e830d 100644 --- a/fs/proc/page.c +++ b/fs/proc/page.c @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ u64 stable_page_flags(struct page *page) /* - * Caveats on high order pages: page->_count will only be set + * Caveats on high order pages: page->_refcount will only be set * -1 on the head page; SLUB/SLQB do the same for PG_slab; * SLOB won't set PG_slab at all on compound pages. */ |