mm: clarify why we avoid page_mapcount() for slab pages in dump_page()

[cascardo/linux.git] / mm / debug.c

diff --git a/mm/debug.c b/mm/debug.c
index 74c7cae..9feb699 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/debug.c
+++ b/mm/debug.c
@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ const struct trace_print_flags vmaflag_names[] = {
 
 void __dump_page(struct page *page, const char *reason)
 {
+       /*
+        * Avoid VM_BUG_ON() in page_mapcount().
+        * page->_mapcount space in struct page is used by sl[aou]b pages to
+        * encode own info.
+        */
        int mapcount = PageSlab(page) ? 0 : page_mapcount(page);
 
        pr_emerg("page:%p count:%d mapcount:%d mapping:%p index:%#lx",