linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 01/15] slab: correct pfmemalloc check

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Date:	Wed, 16 Oct 2013 15:27:54 +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,
	Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/15] slab: correct pfmemalloc check

On Wed, 16 Oct 2013, Joonsoo Kim wrote:

> --- a/mm/slab.c
> +++ b/mm/slab.c
> @@ -930,7 +930,8 @@ static void *__ac_put_obj(struct kmem_cache *cachep, struct array_cache *ac,
>  {
>  	if (unlikely(pfmemalloc_active)) {
>  		/* Some pfmemalloc slabs exist, check if this is one */
> -		struct page *page = virt_to_head_page(objp);
> +		struct slab *slabp = virt_to_slab(objp);
> +		struct page *page = virt_to_head_page(slabp->s_mem);
>  		if (PageSlabPfmemalloc(page))

I hope the compiler optimizes this code correctly because virt_to_slab
already does one virt_to_head_page()?

Otherwise this looks fine.
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