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authorMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>2024-03-26 17:10:31 +0000
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2024-04-25 20:56:15 -0700
commit4dc7d37370951fe86216f03a4e0a6909f9b90a8c (patch)
tree7bb17a1955a75bddade006c557f24dd3c4bb1bb6 /Documentation/mm
parent5e0debe012f31d6409b840920d0c37396d32ce30 (diff)
remove references to page->flags in documentation
Mostly rewording, but remove entirely the copy of page_fixed_fake_head() in the documentation; we can refer people to the actual source if necessary. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240326171045.410737-10-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst22
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst b/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst
index 593ede6d314b..b4a55b6569fa 100644
--- a/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst
+++ b/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst
@@ -180,27 +180,7 @@ this correctly. There is only **one** head ``struct page``, the tail
``struct page`` with ``PG_head`` are fake head ``struct page``. We need an
approach to distinguish between those two different types of ``struct page`` so
that ``compound_head()`` can return the real head ``struct page`` when the
-parameter is the tail ``struct page`` but with ``PG_head``. The following code
-snippet describes how to distinguish between real and fake head ``struct page``.
-
-.. code-block:: c
-
- if (test_bit(PG_head, &page->flags)) {
- unsigned long head = READ_ONCE(page[1].compound_head);
-
- if (head & 1) {
- if (head == (unsigned long)page + 1)
- /* head struct page */
- else
- /* tail struct page */
- } else {
- /* head struct page */
- }
- }
-
-We can safely access the field of the **page[1]** with ``PG_head`` because the
-page is a compound page composed with at least two contiguous pages.
-The implementation refers to ``page_fixed_fake_head()``.
+parameter is the tail ``struct page`` but with ``PG_head``.
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