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| author | Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]> | 2016-05-19 17:10:49 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> | 2016-05-19 19:12:14 -0700 |
| commit | 0139aa7b7fa12ceef095d99dc36606a5b10ab83a (patch) | |
| tree | 94da74f2f79911a11a3c7c34f73ba971dec41a7e /include/linux/debugobjects.h | |
| parent | 6d061f9f6136d477932088c24ce155d7dc785746 (diff) | |
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.
[[email protected]: fix comments, per Vlastimil]
[[email protected]: Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt too]
[[email protected]: sync ethernet driver changes]
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
Cc: Sunil Goutham <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <[email protected]>
Cc: Manish Chopra <[email protected]>
Cc: Yuval Mintz <[email protected]>
Cc: Tariq Toukan <[email protected]>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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