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>
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index b49ee12..f8ac8f5 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -3113,7 +3113,7 @@
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_ref_count(page_tail) != 0, page_tail);
/*
- * tail_page->_count is zero and not changing from under us. But
+ * tail_page->_refcount is zero and not changing from under us. But
* get_page_unless_zero() may be running from under us on the
* tail_page. If we used atomic_set() below instead of atomic_inc(), we
* would then run atomic_set() concurrently with
@@ -3340,7 +3340,7 @@
if (mlocked)
lru_add_drain();
- /* Prevent deferred_split_scan() touching ->_count */
+ /* Prevent deferred_split_scan() touching ->_refcount */
spin_lock_irqsave(&pgdata->split_queue_lock, flags);
count = page_count(head);
mapcount = total_mapcount(head);