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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)
tree94da74f2f79911a11a3c7c34f73ba971dec41a7e /fs/proc/page.c
parent6d061f9f6136d477932088c24ce155d7dc785746 (diff)
downloadlinux-0139aa7b7fa12ceef095d99dc36606a5b10ab83a.tar.gz
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 'fs/proc/page.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/page.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/page.c b/fs/proc/page.c
index 712f1b9992cc..3ecd445e830d 100644
--- a/fs/proc/page.c
+++ b/fs/proc/page.c
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ u64 stable_page_flags(struct page *page)
 
 
 	/*
-	 * Caveats on high order pages: page->_count will only be set
+	 * Caveats on high order pages: page->_refcount will only be set
 	 * -1 on the head page; SLUB/SLQB do the same for PG_slab;
 	 * SLOB won't set PG_slab at all on compound pages.
 	 */