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authorJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>2016-05-20 03:10:49 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-05-20 05:12:14 +0300
commit0139aa7b7fa12ceef095d99dc36606a5b10ab83a (patch)
tree94da74f2f79911a11a3c7c34f73ba971dec41a7e /mm/slub.c
parent6d061f9f6136d477932088c24ce155d7dc785746 (diff)
downloadlinux-0139aa7b7fa12ceef095d99dc36606a5b10ab83a.tar.xz
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.c4
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;