From 6c14466cc00ff13121ae782d33d9df0fde20b124 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:53:38 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] 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: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Rafael Aquini Acked-by: Minchan Kim Cc: Laura Abbott Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed