linux-kernel - [PATCH 01/16] mm/slab: fix stale code comment

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Date:	Thu, 14 Jan 2016 14:24:14 +0900
From:	Joonsoo Kim <js1304@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 01/16] mm/slab: fix stale code comment

We use freelist_idx_t type for free object management whose size
would be smaller than size of unsigned int. Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
---
 mm/slab.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 6ecc697..c8f9c3a 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ static void cache_estimate(unsigned long gfporder, size_t buffer_size,
 	 * on it. For the latter case, the memory allocated for a
 	 * slab is used for:
 	 *
-	 * - One unsigned int for each object
+	 * - One freelist_idx_t for each object
 	 * - Padding to respect alignment of @align
 	 * - @buffer_size bytes for each object
 	 *
-- 
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