[PATCH] mm: split highorder pages
Have an explicit mm call to split higher order pages into individual pages. Should help to avoid bugs and be more explicit about the code's intention. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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@@ -328,6 +328,12 @@ static inline void get_page(struct page *page)
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void put_page(struct page *page);
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#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
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void split_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order);
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#else
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static inline void split_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order) {}
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#endif
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/*
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* Multiple processes may "see" the same page. E.g. for untouched
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* mappings of /dev/null, all processes see the same page full of
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