linux/mm/internal.h
Nick Piggin 0f8053a509 [PATCH] mm: make __put_page internal
Remove __put_page from outside the core mm/.  It is dangerous because it does
not handle compound pages nicely, and misses 1->0 transitions.  If a user
later appears that really needs the extra speed we can reevaluate.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:54:01 -08:00

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/* internal.h: mm/ internal definitions
*
* Copyright (C) 2004 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
* Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com)
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
* 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*/
#ifndef __MM_INTERNAL_H
#define __MM_INTERNAL_H
#include <linux/mm.h>
static inline void set_page_refs(struct page *page, int order)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
set_page_count(page, 1);
#else
int i;
/*
* We need to reference all the pages for this order, otherwise if
* anyone accesses one of the pages with (get/put) it will be freed.
* - eg: access_process_vm()
*/
for (i = 0; i < (1 << order); i++)
set_page_count(page + i, 1);
#endif /* CONFIG_MMU */
}
static inline void __put_page(struct page *page)
{
atomic_dec(&page->_count);
}
extern void fastcall __init __free_pages_bootmem(struct page *page,
unsigned int order);
#endif