Re: About get_page for compound page

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 23:54 +0800, Fengwei Yin wrote:
> Hi,
> In get_page(), the parameter page is changed by
>          page = compound_head(page);
> if the page is not the first page of compound pages.
> 
> My question: is this behavior correct?

Yes it is, in general the page state of a compound page is kept in the
first page of the set.

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