Commit b09eb1c0 authored by Nick Piggin's avatar Nick Piggin Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] mm: page_state opt docs



Comment the new locking rules for page_state statistics.

Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent a74609fa
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/*
 * Global page accounting.  One instance per CPU.  Only unsigned longs are
 * allowed.
 *
 * - Fields can be modified with xxx_page_state and xxx_page_state_zone at
 * any time safely (which protects the instance from modification by
 * interrupt.
 * - The __xxx_page_state variants can be used safely when interrupts are
 * disabled.
 * - The __xxx_page_state variants can be used if the field is only
 * modified from process context, or only modified from interrupt context.
 * In this case, the field should be commented here.
 */
struct page_state {
	unsigned long nr_dirty;		/* Dirty writeable pages */
	unsigned long nr_writeback;	/* Pages under writeback */
	unsigned long nr_unstable;	/* NFS unstable pages */
	unsigned long nr_page_table_pages;/* Pages used for pagetables */
	unsigned long nr_mapped;	/* mapped into pagetables */
	unsigned long nr_mapped;	/* mapped into pagetables.
					 * only modified from process context */
	unsigned long nr_slab;		/* In slab */
#define GET_PAGE_STATE_LAST nr_slab