VM: allow get_page_unless_zero on compound pages

Both slab defrag and the large blocksize patches need to ability to take
refcounts on compound pages.  May be useful in other places as well.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index f28a0338574f58ec41cb74888ebe31fff4c7c9d9..bcbe6979ff65be1c392bfb8238e0a911b938de48 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ static inline int put_page_testzero(struct page *page)
  */
 static inline int get_page_unless_zero(struct page *page)
 {
-       VM_BUG_ON(PageCompound(page));
+       VM_BUG_ON(PageTail(page));
        return atomic_inc_not_zero(&page->_count);
 }