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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] mm/slob: Drop usage of page->private for storing page-sized allocations
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On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 1:41 AM, Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com> wrote:
> This field was being used to store size allocation so it could be
> retrieved by ksize(). However, it is a bad practice to not mark a page
> as a slab page and then use fields for special purposes.
> There is no need to store the allocated size and
> ksize() can simply return PAGE_SIZE << compound_order(page).
>
> Cc: Pekka Penberg <penberg@kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>

Applied all three patches. Thanks, Ezequiel!


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