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authorMatthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>2018-06-07 17:08:35 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-06-07 17:34:37 -0700
commitb21999da02f891aafa362252f4db7ba5c34a9a8d (patch)
tree9e105640596888be72a145b04d147bea5e318d08 /include
parent7d27a04bb2b5bd665f147439d18ae236080eef32 (diff)
mm: move _refcount out of struct page union
Keeping the refcount in the union only encourages people to put something else in the union which will overlap with _refcount and eventually explode messily. pahole reports no fields change location. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180518194519.3820-7-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm_types.h25
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index bcc5ee8b7b07..0b0c0e224011 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -113,7 +113,13 @@ struct page {
};
};
- union {
+ union { /* This union is 4 bytes in size. */
+ /*
+ * If the page can be mapped to userspace, encodes the number
+ * of times this page is referenced by a page table.
+ */
+ atomic_t _mapcount;
+
/*
* If the page is neither PageSlab nor mappable to userspace,
* the value stored here may help determine what this page
@@ -124,22 +130,11 @@ struct page {
unsigned int active; /* SLAB */
int units; /* SLOB */
-
- struct { /* Page cache */
- /*
- * Count of ptes mapped in mms, to show when
- * page is mapped & limit reverse map searches.
- */
- atomic_t _mapcount;
-
- /*
- * Usage count, *USE WRAPPER FUNCTION* when manual
- * accounting. See page_ref.h
- */
- atomic_t _refcount;
- };
};
+ /* Usage count. *DO NOT USE DIRECTLY*. See page_ref.h */
+ atomic_t _refcount;
+
/*
* WARNING: bit 0 of the first word encode PageTail(). That means
* the rest users of the storage space MUST NOT use the bit to