[PATCH 3/4] buddy: explicitly identify buddy field use in struct page

From: Andy Whitcroft
Date: Tue Jul 01 2008 - 13:59:32 EST


Explicitly define the struct page fields which buddy uses when it owns
pages. Defines a new anonymous struct to allow additional fields to
be defined in a later patch.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mm_types.h | 3 +++
mm/internal.h | 2 +-
mm/page_alloc.c | 4 ++--
3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index 02a27ae..45eb71f 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -69,6 +69,9 @@ struct page {
#endif
struct kmem_cache *slab; /* SLUB: Pointer to slab */
struct page *first_page; /* Compound tail pages */
+ struct {
+ unsigned long buddy_order; /* buddy: free page order */
+ };
};
union {
pgoff_t index; /* Our offset within mapping. */
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index 0034e94..ac0f600 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ extern void __free_pages_bootmem(struct page *page, unsigned int order);
static inline unsigned long page_order(struct page *page)
{
VM_BUG_ON(!PageBuddy(page));
- return page_private(page);
+ return page->buddy_order;
}

/*
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 4d9c4e8..d73e1e1 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -316,14 +316,14 @@ static inline void prep_zero_page(struct page *page, int order, gfp_t gfp_flags)

static inline void set_page_order(struct page *page, int order)
{
- set_page_private(page, order);
+ page->buddy_order = order;
__SetPageBuddy(page);
}

static inline void rmv_page_order(struct page *page)
{
__ClearPageBuddy(page);
- set_page_private(page, 0);
+ page->buddy_order = 0;
}

/*
--
1.5.6.1.201.g3e7d3

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