[PATCH 174/222] mm: Fix PageHead when !CONFIG_PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED

Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski herton.krzesinski at canonical.com
Wed Jan 16 15:56:14 UTC 2013


3.5.7.3 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Christoffer Dall <cdall at cs.columbia.edu>

commit ad4b3fb7ff9940bcdb1e4cd62bd189d10fa636ba upstream.

Unfortunately with !CONFIG_PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED, (!PageHead) is false, and
(PageHead) is true, for tail pages.  If this is indeed the intended
behavior, which I doubt because it breaks cache cleaning on some ARM
systems, then the nomenclature is highly problematic.

This patch makes sure PageHead is only true for head pages and PageTail
is only true for tail pages, and neither is true for non-compound pages.

[ This buglet seems ancient - seems to have been introduced back in Apr
  2008 in commit 6a1e7f777f61: "pageflags: convert to the use of new
  macros".  And the reason nobody noticed is because the PageHead()
  tests are almost all about just sanity-checking, and only used on
  pages that are actual page heads.  The fact that the old code returned
  true for tail pages too was thus not really noticeable.   - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall at cs.columbia.edu>
Acked-by:  Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange at redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <Will.Deacon at arm.com>
Cc: Steve Capper <Steve.Capper at arm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl at linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski at canonical.com>
---
 include/linux/page-flags.h |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
index c88d2a9..4dabf0f 100644
--- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
+++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ static inline void ClearPageCompound(struct page *page)
  * pages on the LRU and/or pagecache.
  */
 TESTPAGEFLAG(Compound, compound)
-__PAGEFLAG(Head, compound)
+__SETPAGEFLAG(Head, compound)  __CLEARPAGEFLAG(Head, compound)
 
 /*
  * PG_reclaim is used in combination with PG_compound to mark the
@@ -373,8 +373,14 @@ __PAGEFLAG(Head, compound)
  * PG_compound & PG_reclaim	=> Tail page
  * PG_compound & ~PG_reclaim	=> Head page
  */
+#define PG_head_mask ((1L << PG_compound))
 #define PG_head_tail_mask ((1L << PG_compound) | (1L << PG_reclaim))
 
+static inline int PageHead(struct page *page)
+{
+	return ((page->flags & PG_head_tail_mask) == PG_head_mask);
+}
+
 static inline int PageTail(struct page *page)
 {
 	return ((page->flags & PG_head_tail_mask) == PG_head_tail_mask);
-- 
1.7.9.5





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