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Commit 6c14466c authored by Mel Gorman's avatar Mel Gorman Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: improve documentation of page_order


Developers occasionally try and optimise PFN scanners by using
page_order but miss that in general it requires zone->lock.  This has
happened twice for compaction.c and rejected both times.  This patch
clarifies the documentation of page_order and adds a note to
compaction.c why page_order is not used.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweaks]
[lauraa@codeaurora.org: Corrected a page_zone(page)->lock reference]
Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarRafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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