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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 <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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41 lines
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C
/* internal.h: mm/ internal definitions
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*
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* Copyright (C) 2004 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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* Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com)
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*
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* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
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* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
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* 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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*/
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#ifndef __MM_INTERNAL_H
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#define __MM_INTERNAL_H
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#include <linux/mm.h>
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static inline void set_page_count(struct page *page, int v)
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{
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atomic_set(&page->_count, v);
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}
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/*
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* Turn a non-refcounted page (->_count == 0) into refcounted with
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* a count of one.
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*/
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static inline void set_page_refcounted(struct page *page)
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{
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VM_BUG_ON(PageCompound(page) && PageTail(page));
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VM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->_count));
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set_page_count(page, 1);
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}
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static inline void __put_page(struct page *page)
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{
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atomic_dec(&page->_count);
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}
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extern void fastcall __init __free_pages_bootmem(struct page *page,
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unsigned int order);
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#endif
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