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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-01-21 19:05:45 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-01-21 19:05:45 -0800 |
commit | df32e43a54d04eda35d2859beaf90e3864d53288 (patch) | |
tree | 7a61cf658b2949bd426285eb9902be7758ced1ba /include/linux/huge_mm.h | |
parent | fbd918a2026d0464ce9c23f57b7de4bcfccdc2e6 (diff) | |
parent | 78d5506e82b21a1a1de68c24182db2c2fe521422 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew)
Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
- a couple of misc things
- inotify/fsnotify work from Jan
- ocfs2 updates (partial)
- about half of MM
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (117 commits)
mm/migrate: remove unused function, fail_migrate_page()
mm/migrate: remove putback_lru_pages, fix comment on putback_movable_pages
mm/migrate: correct failure handling if !hugepage_migration_support()
mm/migrate: add comment about permanent failure path
mm, page_alloc: warn for non-blockable __GFP_NOFAIL allocation failure
mm: compaction: reset scanner positions immediately when they meet
mm: compaction: do not mark unmovable pageblocks as skipped in async compaction
mm: compaction: detect when scanners meet in isolate_freepages
mm: compaction: reset cached scanner pfn's before reading them
mm: compaction: encapsulate defer reset logic
mm: compaction: trace compaction begin and end
memcg, oom: lock mem_cgroup_print_oom_info
sched: add tracepoints related to NUMA task migration
mm: numa: do not automatically migrate KSM pages
mm: numa: trace tasks that fail migration due to rate limiting
mm: numa: limit scope of lock for NUMA migrate rate limiting
mm: numa: make NUMA-migrate related functions static
lib/show_mem.c: show num_poisoned_pages when oom
mm/hwpoison: add '#' to hwpoison_inject
mm/memblock: use WARN_ONCE when MAX_NUMNODES passed as input parameter
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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/huge_mm.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/huge_mm.h | 23 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/huge_mm.h b/include/linux/huge_mm.h index 91672e2..db51201 100644 --- a/include/linux/huge_mm.h +++ b/include/linux/huge_mm.h @@ -157,6 +157,26 @@ static inline int hpage_nr_pages(struct page *page) return HPAGE_PMD_NR; return 1; } +/* + * compound_trans_head() should be used instead of compound_head(), + * whenever the "page" passed as parameter could be the tail of a + * transparent hugepage that could be undergoing a + * __split_huge_page_refcount(). The page structure layout often + * changes across releases and it makes extensive use of unions. So if + * the page structure layout will change in a way that + * page->first_page gets clobbered by __split_huge_page_refcount, the + * implementation making use of smp_rmb() will be required. + * + * Currently we define compound_trans_head as compound_head, because + * page->private is in the same union with page->first_page, and + * page->private isn't clobbered. However this also means we're + * currently leaving dirt into the page->private field of anonymous + * pages resulting from a THP split, instead of setting page->private + * to zero like for every other page that has PG_private not set. But + * anonymous pages don't use page->private so this is not a problem. + */ +#if 0 +/* This will be needed if page->private will be clobbered in split_huge_page */ static inline struct page *compound_trans_head(struct page *page) { if (PageTail(page)) { @@ -174,6 +194,9 @@ static inline struct page *compound_trans_head(struct page *page) } return page; } +#else +#define compound_trans_head(page) compound_head(page) +#endif extern int do_huge_pmd_numa_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, pmd_t pmd, pmd_t *pmdp); |