深入理解linux内存管理之 页框管理结构page

物理内存被划分成固定大小的块，称为页帧，kernel会为每一个页帧都创建struct page管理结构，保存在全局数组mem_map中。

内核应该注意保持page结构尽量小，因为对于现代计算机，物理内存包含大量的页帧，即便是增加page一点点空间，都会导致保存所有页帧page结构多占用大量物理内存。

所以我们可以在page结构的设计中，看到为了减小page结构尺寸所做的努力。

struct page

/*
 * Each physical page in the system has a struct page associated with
 * it to keep track of whatever it is we are using the page for at the
 * moment. Note that we have no way to track which tasks are using
 * a page, though if it is a pagecache page, rmap structures can tell us
 * who is mapping it.
 */
struct 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 */
	};
	union {
		pgoff_t index;		/* Our offset within mapping. */
		void *freelist;		/* SLUB: freelist req. slab lock */
	};
	struct list_head lru;		/* Pageout list, eg. active_list
					 * protected by zone->lru_lock !
					 */
	/*
	 * On machines where all RAM is mapped into ker