linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/16] slab: change return type of kmem

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Date:	Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:49:43 +0000
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Joonsoo Kim <js1304@...il.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/16] slab: change return type of kmem_getpages() to
 struct page

On Thu, 22 Aug 2013, Joonsoo Kim wrote:

> @@ -2042,7 +2042,7 @@ static void slab_destroy_debugcheck(struct kmem_cache *cachep, struct slab *slab
>   */
>  static void slab_destroy(struct kmem_cache *cachep, struct slab *slabp)
>  {
> -	void *addr = slabp->s_mem - slabp->colouroff;
> +	struct page *page = virt_to_head_page(slabp->s_mem);
>
>  	slab_destroy_debugcheck(cachep, slabp);
>  	if (unlikely(cachep->flags & SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU)) {

Ok so this removes slab offset management. The use of a struct page
pointer therefore results in coloring support to be not possible anymore.

I would suggest to have a separate patch for coloring removal before this
patch. It seems that the support is removed in two different patches now.

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