Re: [PATCH] mm: cleanup the comment for head/tail pages of compound pages in mm/page_alloc.c

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>]

[CCing trivial tree]

Unquoted patch at https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/15/402

On Wed 16-11-11 08:05:07, Wang Sheng-Hui wrote:
[...]
> Thanks, Michal.
> 
> New patch generated.
> 
> 
> [PATCH] mm: cleanup the comment for head/tail pages of compound pages in mm/page_alloc.c
> 
> Only tail pages point at the head page using their ->first_page fields.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>

> ---
>  mm/page_alloc.c |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 6e8ecb6..e7dd848 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -332,8 +332,8 @@ out:
>   *
>   * The remaining PAGE_SIZE pages are called "tail pages".
>   *
> - * All pages have PG_compound set.  All pages have their ->private pointing at
> - * the head page (even the head page has this).
> + * All pages have PG_compound set.  All tail pages have their ->first_page
> + * pointing at the head page.
>   *
>   * The first tail page's ->lru.next holds the address of the compound page's
>   * put_page() function.  Its ->lru.prev holds the order of allocation.
> -- 
> 1.7.1

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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Czech Republic

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