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authorJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>2016-05-19 17:10:49 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-05-19 19:12:14 -0700
commit0139aa7b7fa12ceef095d99dc36606a5b10ab83a (patch)
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parent6d061f9f6136d477932088c24ce155d7dc785746 (diff)
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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 'include/linux/pagemap.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/pagemap.h8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/pagemap.h b/include/linux/pagemap.h
index 7e1ab15..fe1513f 100644
--- a/include/linux/pagemap.h
+++ b/include/linux/pagemap.h
@@ -90,12 +90,12 @@ void release_pages(struct page **pages, int nr, bool cold);
/*
* speculatively take a reference to a page.
- * If the page is free (_count == 0), then _count is untouched, and 0
- * is returned. Otherwise, _count is incremented by 1 and 1 is returned.
+ * If the page is free (_refcount == 0), then _refcount is untouched, and 0
+ * is returned. Otherwise, _refcount is incremented by 1 and 1 is returned.
*
* This function must be called inside the same rcu_read_lock() section as has
* been used to lookup the page in the pagecache radix-tree (or page table):
- * this allows allocators to use a synchronize_rcu() to stabilize _count.
+ * this allows allocators to use a synchronize_rcu() to stabilize _refcount.
*
* Unless an RCU grace period has passed, the count of all pages coming out
* of the allocator must be considered unstable. page_count may return higher
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ void release_pages(struct page **pages, int nr, bool cold);
* 2. conditionally increment refcount
* 3. check the page is still in pagecache (if no, goto 1)
*
- * Remove-side that cares about stability of _count (eg. reclaim) has the
+ * Remove-side that cares about stability of _refcount (eg. reclaim) has the
* following (with tree_lock held for write):
* A. atomically check refcount is correct and set it to 0 (atomic_cmpxchg)
* B. remove page from pagecache
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