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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/6] struct page: add field for vm_struct
On Tue, 30 Jan 2018, Igor Stoppa wrote:

> @@ -1769,6 +1774,9 @@ void *__vmalloc_node_range(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
>
> kmemleak_vmalloc(area, size, gfp_mask);
>
> + for (page_counter = 0; page_counter < area->nr_pages; page_counter++)
> + area->pages[page_counter]->area = area;
> +
> return addr;

Well this introduces significant overhead for large sized allocation. Does
this not matter because the areas are small?

Would it not be better to use compound page allocations here?
page_head(whatever) gets you the head page where you can store all sorts
of information about the chunk of memory.


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