linux/arch/sparc
Kirill A. Shutemov ddc58f27f9 mm: drop tail page refcounting
Tail page refcounting is utterly complicated and painful to support.

It uses ->_mapcount on tail pages to store how many times this page is
pinned.  get_page() bumps ->_mapcount on tail page in addition to
->_count on head.  This information is required by split_huge_page() to
be able to distribute pins from head of compound page to tails during
the split.

We will need ->_mapcount to account PTE mappings of subpages of the
compound page.  We eliminate need in current meaning of ->_mapcount in
tail pages by forbidding split entirely if the page is pinned.

The only user of tail page refcounting is THP which is marked BROKEN for
now.

Let's drop all this mess.  It makes get_page() and put_page() much
simpler.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
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boot sparc: Add "install" target 2014-08-04 20:45:59 -07:00
configs sparc: Set CONFIG_NET=y in defconfigs 2014-09-24 13:38:30 -04:00
crypto crypto: sparc - initialize blkcipher.ivsize 2015-10-08 21:36:48 +08:00
include Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2016-01-12 18:57:02 -08:00
kernel sparc64: fix incorrect sign extension in sys_sparc64_personality 2016-01-14 13:06:09 -05:00
lib sparc64: fix FP corruption in user copy functions 2015-12-24 12:13:18 -05:00
math-emu arch/sparc/math-emu/math_32.c: drop stray break operator 2014-08-04 20:29:06 -07:00
mm mm: drop tail page refcounting 2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
net net: filter: make JITs zero A for SKF_AD_ALU_XOR_X 2016-01-06 00:43:52 -05:00
oprofile
power Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc 2014-10-11 20:36:34 -04:00
prom sparc64: Fix register corruption in top-most kernel stack frame during boot. 2014-10-24 09:52:49 -07:00
Kbuild sparc64: Add SHA1 driver making use of the 'sha1' instruction. 2012-08-20 15:08:49 -07:00
Kconfig sparc: time: Replace update_persistent_clock() with CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHC 2015-06-25 01:13:43 +02:00
Kconfig.debug
Makefile sparc: Add "install" target 2014-08-04 20:45:59 -07:00