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authorAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>2006-12-06 20:33:32 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>2006-12-07 08:39:25 -0800
commit33f2ef89f8e181486b63fdbdc97c6afa6ca9f34b (patch)
treeb90eac24ff367bc628c44eaa51a9f0ea1b69d1a4 /include/linux
parent3c517a6132098ca37e122a2980fc64a9e798b0d7 (diff)
[PATCH] mm: make compound page destructor handling explicit
Currently we we use the lru head link of the second page of a compound page to hold its destructor. This was ok when it was purely an internal implmentation detail. However, hugetlbfs overrides this destructor violating the layering. Abstract this out as explicit calls, also introduce a type for the callback function allowing them to be type checked. For each callback we pre-declare the function, causing a type error on definition rather than on use elsewhere. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm.h18
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 0e266fe1b4c..a17b147c61e 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -296,6 +296,24 @@ void put_pages_list(struct list_head *pages);
void split_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order);
/*
+ * Compound pages have a destructor function. Provide a
+ * prototype for that function and accessor functions.
+ * These are _only_ valid on the head of a PG_compound page.
+ */
+typedef void compound_page_dtor(struct page *);
+
+static inline void set_compound_page_dtor(struct page *page,
+ compound_page_dtor *dtor)
+{
+ page[1].lru.next = (void *)dtor;
+}
+
+static inline compound_page_dtor *get_compound_page_dtor(struct page *page)
+{
+ return (compound_page_dtor *)page[1].lru.next;
+}
+
+/*
* Multiple processes may "see" the same page. E.g. for untouched
* mappings of /dev/null, all processes see the same page full of
* zeroes, and text pages of executables and shared libraries have