[PATCH] mm: split highorder pages
Have an explicit mm call to split higher order pages into individual pages.
Should help to avoid bugs and be more explicit about the code's intention.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 85e80a5..6af555c 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1221,9 +1221,7 @@
* The page has to be a nice clean _individual_ kernel allocation.
* If you allocate a compound page, you need to have marked it as
* such (__GFP_COMP), or manually just split the page up yourself
- * (which is mainly an issue of doing "set_page_count(page, 1)" for
- * each sub-page, and then freeing them one by one when you free
- * them rather than freeing it as a compound page).
+ * (see split_page()).
*
* NOTE! Traditionally this was done with "remap_pfn_range()" which
* took an arbitrary page protection parameter. This doesn't allow
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 1029198..fc65e87 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -752,6 +752,28 @@
clear_highpage(page + i);
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
+/*
+ * split_page takes a non-compound higher-order page, and splits it into
+ * n (1<<order) sub-pages: page[0..n]
+ * Each sub-page must be freed individually.
+ *
+ * Note: this is probably too low level an operation for use in drivers.
+ * Please consult with lkml before using this in your driver.
+ */
+void split_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
+{
+ int i;
+
+ BUG_ON(PageCompound(page));
+ BUG_ON(!page_count(page));
+ for (i = 1; i < (1 << order); i++) {
+ BUG_ON(page_count(page + i));
+ set_page_count(page + i, 1);
+ }
+}
+#endif
+
/*
* Really, prep_compound_page() should be called from __rmqueue_bulk(). But
* we cheat by calling it from here, in the order > 0 path. Saves a branch