mm: rename _count, field of the struct page, to _refcount

Many developers already know that field for reference count of the
struct page is _count and atomic type.  They would try to handle it
directly and this could break the purpose of page reference count
tracepoint.  To prevent direct _count modification, this patch rename it
to _refcount and add warning message on the code.  After that, developer
who need to handle reference count will find that field should not be
accessed directly.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comments, per Vlastimil]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt too]
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: sync ethernet driver changes]
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@cavium.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: Manish Chopra <manish.chopra@qlogic.com>
Cc: Yuval Mintz <yuval.mintz@qlogic.com>
Cc: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 8671de2e5b12..cf1faa4d3992 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -329,8 +329,8 @@ static inline void set_page_slub_counters(struct page *page, unsigned long count
 	tmp.counters = counters_new;
 	/*
 	 * page->counters can cover frozen/inuse/objects as well
-	 * as page->_count.  If we assign to ->counters directly
-	 * we run the risk of losing updates to page->_count, so
+	 * as page->_refcount.  If we assign to ->counters directly
+	 * we run the risk of losing updates to page->_refcount, so
 	 * be careful and only assign to the fields we need.
 	 */
 	page->frozen  = tmp.frozen;