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
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
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