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>
This commit is contained in:
committed by
Linus Torvalds
parent
6d061f9f61
commit
0139aa7b7f
@@ -1410,7 +1410,7 @@ static int __init crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init(void)
|
||||
VMCOREINFO_STRUCT_SIZE(list_head);
|
||||
VMCOREINFO_SIZE(nodemask_t);
|
||||
VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(page, flags);
|
||||
VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(page, _count);
|
||||
VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(page, _refcount);
|
||||
VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(page, mapping);
|
||||
VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(page, lru);
|
||||
VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(page, _mapcount);
|
||||
|
||||
Reference in New Issue
Block a user