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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/slub.c | |
| parent | 6d061f9f6136d477932088c24ce155d7dc785746 (diff) | |
| download | linux-0139aa7b7fa12ceef095d99dc36606a5b10ab83a.tar.bz2 | |
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/slub.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/slub.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index 8671de2e5b12..cf1faa4d3992 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -329,8 +329,8 @@ static inline void set_page_slub_counters(struct page *page, unsigned long count tmp.counters = counters_new; /* * page->counters can cover frozen/inuse/objects as well - * as page->_count. If we assign to ->counters directly - * we run the risk of losing updates to page->_count, so + * as page->_refcount. If we assign to ->counters directly + * we run the risk of losing updates to page->_refcount, so * be careful and only assign to the fields we need. */ page->frozen = tmp.frozen; |