From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pg0-f72.google.com (mail-pg0-f72.google.com [74.125.83.72]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A96596B0275 for ; Fri, 4 May 2018 14:33:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pg0-f72.google.com with SMTP id t74-v6so6796026pgc.14 for ; Fri, 04 May 2018 11:33:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org. [2607:7c80:54:e::133]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 68-v6si16293107pla.452.2018.05.04.11.33.22 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Fri, 04 May 2018 11:33:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: [PATCH v5 06/17] mm: Move _refcount out of struct page union Date: Fri, 4 May 2018 11:33:07 -0700 Message-Id: <20180504183318.14415-7-willy@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20180504183318.14415-1-willy@infradead.org> References: <20180504183318.14415-1-willy@infradead.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Matthew Wilcox , Andrew Morton , "Kirill A . Shutemov" , Christoph Lameter , Lai Jiangshan , Pekka Enberg , Vlastimil Babka , Dave Hansen , =?UTF-8?q?J=C3=A9r=C3=B4me=20Glisse?= From: Matthew Wilcox Keeping the refcount in the union only encourages people to put something else in the union which will overlap with _refcount and eventually explode messily. pahole reports no fields change location. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov --- include/linux/mm_types.h | 25 ++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h index 23378a789af4..9828cd170251 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h @@ -113,7 +113,13 @@ struct page { }; }; - union { + union { /* This union is 4 bytes in size. */ + /* + * If the page can be mapped to userspace, encodes the number + * of times this page is referenced by a page table. + */ + atomic_t _mapcount; + /* * If the page is neither PageSlab nor mappable to userspace, * the value stored here may help determine what this page @@ -124,22 +130,11 @@ struct page { unsigned int active; /* SLAB */ int units; /* SLOB */ - - struct { /* Page cache */ - /* - * Count of ptes mapped in mms, to show when - * page is mapped & limit reverse map searches. - */ - atomic_t _mapcount; - - /* - * Usage count, *USE WRAPPER FUNCTION* when manual - * accounting. See page_ref.h - */ - atomic_t _refcount; - }; }; + /* Usage count. *DO NOT USE DIRECTLY*. See page_ref.h */ + atomic_t _refcount; + /* * WARNING: bit 0 of the first word encode PageTail(). That means * the rest users of the storage space MUST NOT use the bit to -- 2.17.0