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/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index c1069ef..4ce57f9 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -794,7 +794,7 @@
if (unlikely(page->mapping != NULL))
bad_reason = "non-NULL mapping";
if (unlikely(page_ref_count(page) != 0))
- bad_reason = "nonzero _count";
+ bad_reason = "nonzero _refcount";
if (unlikely(page->flags & PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE)) {
bad_reason = "PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE flag(s) set";
bad_flags = PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE;
@@ -6864,7 +6864,7 @@
* We can't use page_count without pin a page
* because another CPU can free compound page.
* This check already skips compound tails of THP
- * because their page->_count is zero at all time.
+ * because their page->_refcount is zero at all time.
*/
if (!page_ref_count(page)) {
if (PageBuddy(page))