mm: correct the comment about the value for buddy _mapcount
Set _mapcount PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE to make the page buddy. Not the magic number -2. Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@ -489,8 +489,10 @@ __find_buddy_index(unsigned long page_idx, unsigned int order)
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* (c) a page and its buddy have the same order &&
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* (d) a page and its buddy are in the same zone.
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*
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* For recording whether a page is in the buddy system, we set ->_mapcount -2.
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* Setting, clearing, and testing _mapcount -2 is serialized by zone->lock.
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* For recording whether a page is in the buddy system, we set ->_mapcount
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* PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE.
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* Setting, clearing, and testing _mapcount PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE is
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* serialized by zone->lock.
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*
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* For recording page's order, we use page_private(page).
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*/
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@ -528,8 +530,9 @@ static inline int page_is_buddy(struct page *page, struct page *buddy,
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* as necessary, plus some accounting needed to play nicely with other
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* parts of the VM system.
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* At each level, we keep a list of pages, which are heads of continuous
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* free pages of length of (1 << order) and marked with _mapcount -2. Page's
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* order is recorded in page_private(page) field.
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* free pages of length of (1 << order) and marked with _mapcount
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* PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE. Page's order is recorded in page_private(page)
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* field.
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* So when we are allocating or freeing one, we can derive the state of the
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* other. That is, if we allocate a small block, and both were
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* free, the remainder of the region must be split into blocks.
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