From d85f33855c303acfa87fa457157cef755b6087df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Lameter Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 14:49:39 -0700 Subject: Make page->private usable in compound pages If we add a new flag so that we can distinguish between the first page and the tail pages then we can avoid to use page->private in the first page. page->private == page for the first page, so there is no real information in there. Freeing up page->private makes the use of compound pages more transparent. They become more usable like real pages. Right now we have to be careful f.e. if we are going beyond PAGE_SIZE allocations in the slab on i386 because we can then no longer use the private field. This is one of the issues that cause us not to support debugging for page size slabs in SLAB. Having page->private available for SLUB would allow more meta information in the page struct. I can probably avoid the 16 bit ints that I have in there right now. Also if page->private is available then a compound page may be equipped with buffer heads. This may free up the way for filesystems to support larger blocks than page size. We add PageTail as an alias of PageReclaim. Compound pages cannot currently be reclaimed. Because of the alias one needs to check PageCompound first. The RFC for the this approach was discussed at http://marc.info/?t=117574302800001&r=1&w=2 [nacc@us.ibm.com: fix hugetlbfs] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/swap.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/swap.c') diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c index 2ed7be39795e..218c52a24a21 100644 --- a/mm/swap.c +++ b/mm/swap.c @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ static void fastcall __page_cache_release(struct page *page) static void put_compound_page(struct page *page) { - page = (struct page *)page_private(page); + page = compound_head(page); if (put_page_testzero(page)) { compound_page_dtor *dtor; -- cgit v1.2.3