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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] zsmalloc: promote to lib/
On 09/26/2012 04:50 PM, Minchan Kim wrote:
> This patch promotes the slab-based zsmalloc memory allocator
> from the staging tree to lib/
>
> zcache/zram depends on this allocator for storing compressed RAM pages
> in an efficient way under system wide memory pressure where
> high-order (greater than 0) page allocation are very likely to
> fail.
>
> For more information on zsmalloc and its internals, read the
> documentation at the top of the zsmalloc.c file.
>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
> ---
> drivers/staging/Kconfig | 2 -
> drivers/staging/Makefile | 1 -
> drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c | 4 +-
> drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.h | 3 +-
> drivers/staging/zsmalloc/Kconfig | 10 -
> drivers/staging/zsmalloc/Makefile | 3 -
> drivers/staging/zsmalloc/zsmalloc-main.c | 1064 ------------------------------
> drivers/staging/zsmalloc/zsmalloc.h | 43 --
> include/linux/zsmalloc.h | 43 ++
> lib/Kconfig | 2 +
> lib/Makefile | 1 +
> lib/zsmalloc/Kconfig | 18 +
> lib/zsmalloc/Makefile | 1 +
> lib/zsmalloc/zsmalloc.c | 1064 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 14 files changed, 1132 insertions(+), 1127 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/zsmalloc/Kconfig
> delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/zsmalloc/Makefile
> delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/zsmalloc/zsmalloc-main.c
> delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/zsmalloc/zsmalloc.h
> create mode 100644 include/linux/zsmalloc.h
> create mode 100644 lib/zsmalloc/Kconfig
> create mode 100644 lib/zsmalloc/Makefile
> create mode 100644 lib/zsmalloc/zsmalloc.c

Since there's just one file here, why not just move to lib flatly without creating a new directory?

Thanks,
Wanlong Gao



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