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authorChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>2008-02-04 22:28:35 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-05 09:44:14 -0800
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VM: allow get_page_unless_zero on compound pages
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>
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-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index f28a0338574f..bcbe6979ff65 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -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);
}