How to refer to the unamed structure in page struct
Jimmy Pan
dspjm1 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 4 11:27:44 EDT 2011
truct page {
unsigned long flags; /* Atomic flags, some possibly
* updated asynchronously */
atomic_t _count; /* Usage count, see below. */
union {
atomic_t _mapcount; /* Count of ptes mapped in mms,
* to show when page is mapped
* & limit reverse map searches.
*/
struct { /* SLUB */
u16 inuse;
u16 objects;
};
};
union {
struct {
unsigned long private; /* Mapping-private opaque data:
* usually used for buffer_heads
* if PagePrivate set; used for
* swp_entry_t if PageSwapCache;
* indicates order in the buddy
* system if PG_buddy is set.
*/
struct address_space *mapping; /* If low bit clear, points to
* inode address_space, or NULL.
* If page mapped as anonymous
* memory, low bit is set, and
* it points to anon_vma object:
* see PAGE_MAPPING_ANON below.
*/
};
#if USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS
spinlock_t ptl;
#endif
struct kmem_cache *slab; /* SLUB: Pointer to slab */
struct page *first_page; /* Compound tail pages */
};
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As you can see in the code, the union in the page structure doesn't
have a name, so does
the structure in the union, how to refer to those two?
Thanks in advance,
Jimmy
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