[PATCH] mm: split highorder pages

Have an explicit mm call to split higher order pages into individual pages.
 Should help to avoid bugs and be more explicit about the code's intention.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 9bbddf228cd9..e67980654c49 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -328,6 +328,12 @@ static inline void get_page(struct page *page)
 
 void put_page(struct page *page);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
+void split_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order);
+#else
+static inline void split_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order) {}
+#endif
+
 /*
  * Multiple processes may "see" the same page. E.g. for untouched
  * mappings of /dev/null, all processes see the same page full of