Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] mm: Split page_type out from _map_count
From: Kirill A. Shutemov <hidden>
Date: 2018-03-02 08:18:20
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From: Kirill A. Shutemov <hidden>
Date: 2018-03-02 08:18:20
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On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 01:15:21PM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
From: Matthew Wilcox <redacted> We're already using a union of many fields here, so stop abusing the _map_count and make page_type its own field. That implies renaming some
s/_map_count/_mapcount/ and in subject.
of the machinery that creates PageBuddy, PageBalloon and PageKmemcg; bring back the PG_buddy, PG_balloon and PG_kmemcg names. As suggested by Kirill, make page_type a bitmask. Because it starts out life as -1 (thanks to sharing the storage with _map_count), setting a page flag means clearing the appropriate bit. This gives us space for probably twenty or so extra bits (depending how paranoid we want to be about _mapcount underflow). Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <redacted>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <redacted> -- Kirill A. Shutemov