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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2009-01-14 07:28:16 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-01-18 10:35:44 -0800
commit48d95ecc9cce93fd091100a2903b0591e6499b03 (patch)
treeeea191f6e558d9d7e28fa331366d2fd75d41dc71 /include
parentadb6e972fdee2dc4c3ec4093ab4429233d51b3b4 (diff)
mm: fix assertion
commit 18e6959c385f3edf3991fa6662a53dac4eb10d5b upstream. This assertion is incorrect for lockless pagecache. By definition if we have an unpinned page that we are trying to take a speculative reference to, it may become the tail of a compound page at any time (if it is freed, then reallocated as a compound page). It was still a valid assertion for the vmscan.c LRU isolation case, but it doesn't seem incredibly helpful... if somebody wants it, they can put it back directly where it applies in the vmscan code. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm.h1
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 72a15dc26bbf..856d52a8a4c0 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -253,7 +253,6 @@ static inline int put_page_testzero(struct page *page)
*/
static inline int get_page_unless_zero(struct page *page)
{
- VM_BUG_ON(PageTail(page));
return atomic_inc_not_zero(&page->_count);
}