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| author | Nick Piggin | 2006-03-22 00:08:03 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2006-03-22 07:53:57 -0800 |
| commit | 8dc04efbfb3c08a08fb7a3b97348d5d561b26ae2 (patch) | |
| tree | a48ce376d077745fdab23a33e5be1d48c979c3ae | |
| parent | 7c8ee9a86340db686cd4314e9944dc9b6111bda9 (diff) | |
[PATCH] mm: de-skew page refcounting
atomic_add_unless (atomic_inc_not_zero) no longer requires an offset refcount
to function correctly.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm.h | 19 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index b12d5c76420d..9bbddf228cd9 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -286,15 +286,6 @@ struct page { * * Also, many kernel routines increase the page count before a critical * routine so they can be sure the page doesn't go away from under them. - * - * Since 2.6.6 (approx), a free page has ->_count = -1. This is so that we - * can use atomic_add_negative(-1, page->_count) to detect when the page - * becomes free and so that we can also use atomic_inc_and_test to atomically - * detect when we just tried to grab a ref on a page which some other CPU has - * already deemed to be freeable. - * - * NO code should make assumptions about this internal detail! Use the provided - * macros which retain the old rules: page_count(page) == 0 is a free page. */ /* @@ -303,8 +294,8 @@ struct page { */ static inline int put_page_testzero(struct page *page) { - BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->_count) == -1); - return atomic_add_negative(-1, &page->_count); + BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->_count) == 0); + return atomic_dec_and_test(&page->_count); } /* @@ -313,10 +304,10 @@ static inline int put_page_testzero(struct page *page) */ static inline int get_page_unless_zero(struct page *page) { - return atomic_add_unless(&page->_count, 1, -1); + return atomic_inc_not_zero(&page->_count); } -#define set_page_count(p,v) atomic_set(&(p)->_count, (v) - 1) +#define set_page_count(p,v) atomic_set(&(p)->_count, (v)) #define __put_page(p) atomic_dec(&(p)->_count) extern void FASTCALL(__page_cache_release(struct page *)); @@ -325,7 +316,7 @@ static inline int page_count(struct page *page) { if (PageCompound(page)) page = (struct page *)page_private(page); - return atomic_read(&page->_count) + 1; + return atomic_read(&page->_count); } static inline void get_page(struct page *page) |