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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index c2d75b4fa86c..1fda9c99ef95 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -73,9 +73,9 @@ struct page {
unsigned long counters;
#else
/*
- * Keep _count separate from slub cmpxchg_double data.
- * As the rest of the double word is protected by
- * slab_lock but _count is not.
+ * Keep _refcount separate from slub cmpxchg_double
+ * data. As the rest of the double word is protected by
+ * slab_lock but _refcount is not.
*/
unsigned counters;
#endif
@@ -97,7 +97,11 @@ struct page {
};
int units; /* SLOB */
};
- atomic_t _count; /* Usage count, see below. */
+ /*
+ * Usage count, *USE WRAPPER FUNCTION*
+ * when manual accounting. See page_ref.h
+ */
+ atomic_t _refcount;
};
unsigned int active; /* SLAB */
};
@@ -248,7 +252,7 @@ struct page_frag_cache {
__u32 offset;
#endif
/* we maintain a pagecount bias, so that we dont dirty cache line
- * containing page->_count every time we allocate a fragment.
+ * containing page->_refcount every time we allocate a fragment.
*/
unsigned int pagecnt_bias;
bool pfmemalloc;