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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 /include/linux/mm.h
parent6d061f9f6136d477932088c24ce155d7dc785746 (diff)
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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.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 727f799757abf..1193a54ea2b32 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);