VM: allow get_page_unless_zero on compound pages
authorChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Tue, 5 Feb 2008 06:28:35 +0000 (22:28 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 5 Feb 2008 17:44:14 +0000 (09:44 -0800)
Both slab defrag and the large blocksize patches need to ability to take
refcounts on compound pages.  May be useful in other places as well.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mm.h

index f28a0338574f58ec41cb74888ebe31fff4c7c9d9..bcbe6979ff65be1c392bfb8238e0a911b938de48 100644 (file)
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ static inline int put_page_testzero(struct page *page)
  */
 static inline int get_page_unless_zero(struct page *page)
 {
-       VM_BUG_ON(PageCompound(page));
+       VM_BUG_ON(PageTail(page));
        return atomic_inc_not_zero(&page->_count);
 }