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| author | Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> | 2016-10-08 03:01:40 +0300 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-10-08 04:46:29 +0300 |
| commit | 9996f05eac09815121bb718249f21914a667791f (patch) | |
| tree | 5895100f41462c5aa2c68a8b992ba2f2845b134b /mm | |
| parent | 8f26e0b176f3484c49d55d88fe6083a9cf9ff443 (diff) | |
| download | linux-9996f05eac09815121bb718249f21914a667791f.tar.xz | |
mm: clarify why we avoid page_mapcount() for slab pages in dump_page()
Let's add comment on why we skip page_mapcount() for sl[aou]b pages.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160922105532.GB24593@node
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/debug.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/debug.c b/mm/debug.c index 74c7cae4f683..9feb699c5d25 100644 --- a/mm/debug.c +++ b/mm/debug.c @@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ const struct trace_print_flags vmaflag_names[] = { void __dump_page(struct page *page, const char *reason) { + /* + * Avoid VM_BUG_ON() in page_mapcount(). + * page->_mapcount space in struct page is used by sl[aou]b pages to + * encode own info. + */ int mapcount = PageSlab(page) ? 0 : page_mapcount(page); pr_emerg("page:%p count:%d mapcount:%d mapping:%p index:%#lx", |