The patch titled
Subject: page-flags: define behavior of Xen-related flags on compound pages
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
page-flags-define-behavior-of-xen-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/page-flags-define-behavior-of-xen-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/page-flags-define-behavior-of-xen-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch
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From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: page-flags: define behavior of Xen-related flags on compound pages
PG_pinned and PG_savepinned are about page table's pages which are never
compound.
I'm not so sure about PG_foreign, but it seems we shouldn't see compound
pages there too.
Let's use PF_NO_COMPOUND for all of them.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/page-flags.h | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff -puN include/linux/page-flags.h~page-flags-define-behavior-of-xen-related-flags-on-compound-pages include/linux/page-flags.h
--- a/include/linux/page-flags.h~page-flags-define-behavior-of-xen-related-flags-on-compound-pages
+++ a/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -257,9 +257,13 @@ PAGEFLAG(Active, active, PF_HEAD) __CLEA
__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 */
-PAGEFLAG(Foreign, foreign, PF_ANY); /* Xen */
+
+/* Xen */
+PAGEFLAG(Pinned, pinned, PF_NO_COMPOUND)
+ TESTSCFLAG(Pinned, pinned, PF_NO_COMPOUND)
+PAGEFLAG(SavePinned, savepinned, PF_NO_COMPOUND);
+PAGEFLAG(Foreign, foreign, PF_NO_COMPOUND);
+
PAGEFLAG(Reserved, reserved, PF_ANY) __CLEARPAGEFLAG(Reserved, reserved, PF_ANY)
PAGEFLAG(SwapBacked, swapbacked, PF_ANY)
__CLEARPAGEFLAG(SwapBacked, swapbacked, PF_ANY)
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
rcu-force-alignment-on-struct-callback_head-rcu_head.patch
mm-make-optimistic-check-for-swapin-readahead-fix.patch
mm-make-swapin-readahead-to-improve-thp-collapse-rate-fix.patch
mm-make-swapin-readahead-to-improve-thp-collapse-rate-fix-2.patch
mm-make-swapin-readahead-to-improve-thp-collapse-rate-fix-3.patch
mm-drop-page-slab_page.patch
slab-slub-use-page-rcu_head-instead-of-page-lru-plus-cast.patch
zsmalloc-use-page-private-instead-of-page-first_page.patch
mm-pack-compound_dtor-and-compound_order-into-one-word-in-struct-page.patch
mm-make-compound_head-robust.patch
mm-use-unsigned-int-for-page-order.patch
mm-use-unsigned-int-for-compound_dtor-compound_order-on-64bit.patch
page-flags-trivial-cleanup-for-pagetrans-helpers.patch
page-flags-move-code-around.patch
page-flags-introduce-page-flags-policies-wrt-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_locked-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-behavior-of-fs-io-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-behavior-of-lru-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-behavior-slb-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-behavior-of-xen-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_reserved-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_swapbacked-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_swapcache-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_mlocked-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_uncached-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_uptodate-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-look-at-head-page-if-the-flag-is-encoded-in-page-mapping.patch
mm-sanitize-page-mapping-for-tail-pages.patch
mm-support-madvisemadv_free-fix-3.patch
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