Re: [PATCH] thp: tail page refcounting fix #4

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 03:40:07PM -0700, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> Looks great.

Thanks!

> I think some page_mapcount call sites would be easier to read if you
> took on my tail_page_count() suggestion (so we can casually see it's a
> refcount rather than mapcount). But you don't have to do it if you
> don't think it helps. I'm happy enough with the code already :)

I initially tried to do it but I wanted it in internal.h (it's really
an internal thing not mean for any driver whatsoever) but then the
gup.c files wouldn't see it, so I wasn't sure how to proceed and I
dropped it. It's still possible to do it later...
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