linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm/slob: Use free_page instead of put

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Date:	Wed, 31 Oct 2012 08:56:15 +0200
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>
Cc:	Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@...il.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tim Bird <tim.bird@...sony.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm/slob: Use free_page instead of put_page for
 page-size kmalloc allocations

> 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@...allels.com>

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com> wrote:
> Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>

Applied, thanks Ezequiel!
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