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authorChristoffer Dall <cdall@cs.columbia.edu>2012-12-21 22:03:50 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-12-27 02:57:34 +0400
commitad4b3fb7ff9940bcdb1e4cd62bd189d10fa636ba (patch)
treeaa9d7bc0e606df0104b47716c90a38c6689fc713 /drivers
parent637704cbc95c02d18741b4a6e7a5d2397f8b28ce (diff)
downloadlinux-ad4b3fb7ff9940bcdb1e4cd62bd189d10fa636ba.tar.xz
mm: Fix PageHead when !CONFIG_PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED
Unfortunately with !CONFIG_PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED, (!PageHead) is false, and (PageHead) is true, for tail pages. If this is indeed the intended behavior, which I doubt because it breaks cache cleaning on some ARM systems, then the nomenclature is highly problematic. This patch makes sure PageHead is only true for head pages and PageTail is only true for tail pages, and neither is true for non-compound pages. [ This buglet seems ancient - seems to have been introduced back in Apr 2008 in commit 6a1e7f777f61: "pageflags: convert to the use of new macros". And the reason nobody noticed is because the PageHead() tests are almost all about just sanity-checking, and only used on pages that are actual page heads. The fact that the old code returned true for tail pages too was thus not really noticeable. - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@cs.columbia.edu> Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@arm.com> Cc: Steve Capper <Steve.Capper@arm.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.26+ Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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