Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:07:43 +0400 | From | Glauber Costa <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm/slob: Use free_page instead of put_page for page-size kmalloc allocations |
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On 10/22/2012 04:04 PM, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > When freeing objects, the slob allocator currently free empty pages > calling __free_pages(). However, page-size kmallocs are disposed > using put_page() instead. > > It makes no sense to call put_page() for kernel pages that are provided > by the object allocator, so we shouldn't be doing this ourselves. > > This is based on: > commit d9b7f22623b5fa9cc189581dcdfb2ac605933bf4 > Author: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
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