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| author | Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> | 2011-01-14 02:47:00 +0300 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-01-14 04:32:43 +0300 |
| commit | 5f24ce5fd34c3ca1b3d10d30da754732da64d5c0 (patch) | |
| tree | c82d27461f2adda210e77808b7dd04eaec017f2f /mm/page_alloc.c | |
| parent | 21ae5b01750f14140809508a478a4413792e0261 (diff) | |
| download | linux-5f24ce5fd34c3ca1b3d10d30da754732da64d5c0.tar.xz | |
thp: remove PG_buddy
PG_buddy can be converted to _mapcount == -2. So the PG_compound_lock can
be added to page->flags without overflowing (because of the sparse section
bits increasing) with CONFIG_X86_PAE=y and CONFIG_X86_PAT=y. This also
has to move the memory hotplug code from _mapcount to lru.next to avoid
any risk of clashes. We can't use lru.next for PG_buddy removal, but
memory hotplug can use lru.next even more easily than the mapcount
instead.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index e7664b9f706c..9dfe49bceff4 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -449,8 +449,8 @@ __find_combined_index(unsigned long page_idx, unsigned int order) * (c) a page and its buddy have the same order && * (d) a page and its buddy are in the same zone. * - * For recording whether a page is in the buddy system, we use PG_buddy. - * Setting, clearing, and testing PG_buddy is serialized by zone->lock. + * For recording whether a page is in the buddy system, we set ->_mapcount -2. + * Setting, clearing, and testing _mapcount -2 is serialized by zone->lock. * * For recording page's order, we use page_private(page). */ @@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ static inline int page_is_buddy(struct page *page, struct page *buddy, * as necessary, plus some accounting needed to play nicely with other * parts of the VM system. * At each level, we keep a list of pages, which are heads of continuous - * free pages of length of (1 << order) and marked with PG_buddy. Page's + * free pages of length of (1 << order) and marked with _mapcount -2. Page's * order is recorded in page_private(page) field. * So when we are allocating or freeing one, we can derive the state of the * other. That is, if we allocate a small block, and both were @@ -5574,7 +5574,6 @@ static struct trace_print_flags pageflag_names[] = { {1UL << PG_swapcache, "swapcache" }, {1UL << PG_mappedtodisk, "mappedtodisk" }, {1UL << PG_reclaim, "reclaim" }, - {1UL << PG_buddy, "buddy" }, {1UL << PG_swapbacked, "swapbacked" }, {1UL << PG_unevictable, "unevictable" }, #ifdef CONFIG_MMU |