page-flags: define behavior SL*B-related flags on compound pages
authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Sat, 16 Jan 2016 00:51:35 +0000 (16:51 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 16 Jan 2016 01:56:32 +0000 (17:56 -0800)
SL*B uses compound pages and marks head pages with PG_slab.
__SetPageSlab() and __ClearPageSlab() are never called for tail pages.

The same situation with PG_slob_free in SLOB allocator.

PF_NO_TAIL is appropriate for these flags.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/page-flags.h

index 88a3bcba57d666af2dd363c5bb57d035f941a3ef..29d8805aaa23c416beb6c3db2b9725e46ed99c1a 100644 (file)
@@ -266,7 +266,8 @@ PAGEFLAG(Dirty, dirty, PF_HEAD) TESTSCFLAG(Dirty, dirty, PF_HEAD)
 PAGEFLAG(LRU, lru, PF_HEAD) __CLEARPAGEFLAG(LRU, lru, PF_HEAD)
 PAGEFLAG(Active, active, PF_HEAD) __CLEARPAGEFLAG(Active, active, PF_HEAD)
        TESTCLEARFLAG(Active, active, PF_HEAD)
-__PAGEFLAG(Slab, slab, PF_ANY)
+__PAGEFLAG(Slab, slab, PF_NO_TAIL)
+__PAGEFLAG(SlobFree, slob_free, PF_NO_TAIL)
 PAGEFLAG(Checked, checked, PF_NO_COMPOUND)        /* Used by some filesystems */
 PAGEFLAG(Pinned, pinned, PF_ANY) TESTSCFLAG(Pinned, pinned, PF_ANY)    /* Xen */
 PAGEFLAG(SavePinned, savepinned, PF_ANY);                      /* Xen */
@@ -276,8 +277,6 @@ PAGEFLAG(SwapBacked, swapbacked, PF_ANY)
        __CLEARPAGEFLAG(SwapBacked, swapbacked, PF_ANY)
        __SETPAGEFLAG(SwapBacked, swapbacked, PF_ANY)
 
-__PAGEFLAG(SlobFree, slob_free, PF_ANY)
-
 /*
  * Private page markings that may be used by the filesystem that owns the page
  * for its own purposes.