From f0be3d32b05d3fea2fcdbbb81a39dac2a7163169 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lee Schermerhorn Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:13:08 -0700 Subject: mempolicy: rename mpol_free to mpol_put This is a change that was requested some time ago by Mel Gorman. Makes sense to me, so here it is. Note: I retain the name "mpol_free_shared_policy()" because it actually does free the shared_policy, which is NOT a reference counted object. However, ... The mempolicy object[s] referenced by the shared_policy are reference counted, so mpol_put() is used to release the reference held by the shared_policy. The mempolicy might not be freed at this time, because some task attached to the shared object associated with the shared policy may be in the process of allocating a page based on the mempolicy. In that case, the task performing the allocation will hold a reference on the mempolicy, obtained via mpol_shared_policy_lookup(). The mempolicy will be freed when all tasks holding such a reference have called mpol_put() for the mempolicy. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/hugetlb.c') diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index 8deae4eb969..53afa8c76ad 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ static struct page *dequeue_huge_page_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, break; } } - mpol_free(mpol); /* unref if mpol !NULL */ + mpol_put(mpol); /* unref if mpol !NULL */ return page; } -- cgit v1.2.3