From: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@gmail.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] mm: cleanup the comment for head/tail pages of compound pages in mm/page_alloc.c
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:06:16 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EC21D78.4080508@gmail.com> (raw)
Per the void prep_compound_page(struct page *page, unsigned long order) code,
compound pages use PG_head/PG_tail, and only tail pages point at head page
using their ->first_page field.
Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@gmail.com>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 6e8ecb6..f645ce8 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -332,8 +332,8 @@ out:
*
* The remaining PAGE_SIZE pages are called "tail pages".
*
- * All pages have PG_compound set. All pages have their ->private pointing at
- * the head page (even the head page has this).
+ * Head page has PG_head set, and all tail pages have PG_tail set. All tail
+ * pages have their ->first_page pointing at the head page.
*
* The first tail page's ->lru.next holds the address of the compound page's
* put_page() function. Its ->lru.prev holds the order of allocation.
--
1.7.1
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next reply other threads:[~2011-11-15 8:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-15 8:06 Wang Sheng-Hui [this message]
2011-11-15 13:24 ` [PATCH] mm: cleanup the comment for head/tail pages of compound pages in mm/page_alloc.c Michal Hocko
2011-11-16 0:05 ` Wang Sheng-Hui
2011-11-17 8:22 ` Michal Hocko
2011-11-17 9:54 ` Jiri Kosina
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