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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 /include/linux/mm.h | |
parent | 6d061f9f6136d477932088c24ce155d7dc785746 (diff) |
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/mm.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 727f799757ab..1193a54ea2b3 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -734,7 +734,7 @@ static inline void get_page(struct page *page) page = compound_head(page); /* * Getting a normal page or the head of a compound page - * requires to already have an elevated page->_count. + * requires to already have an elevated page->_refcount. */ VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_ref_count(page) <= 0, page); page_ref_inc(page); |