linux/include
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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acpi Merge branches 'acpi-scan', 'acpi-bus', 'acpi-osl' and 'acpi-pm' 2016-01-12 01:10:03 +01:00
asm-generic mm: add PHYS_PFN, use it in __phys_to_pfn() 2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00
clocksource
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drm
dt-bindings Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2016-01-14 17:04:19 -08:00
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linux mm: drop tail page refcounting 2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
math-emu
media [media] media-entitiy: add a function to create multiple links 2016-01-11 12:19:26 -02:00
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net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-01-15 13:33:12 -08:00
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trace khugepaged: ignore pmd tables with THP mapped with ptes 2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
uapi VFIO updates for v4.5-rc1 2016-01-15 13:01:01 -08:00
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