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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702230550270.27654@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:00:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@...r.sgi.com>
To: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
wli@...omorphy.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: remove colouroff from struct slab
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> As the color offset is always within the first page of the slab,
> virt_to_page() works just fine without slabp->colouroff.
True but then we pass an address to kmem_freepages that is not the start
of the page. kmem_freepages will then in turn call free_pages() with an
address that is not the start of a page. free_pages() will then do another
virt_to_page() which ignored the offset into the page again. And so the
approach works but an uneasy feeling remains since the address we got from
kmem_getpages() is different from what we pass to kmem_freepages().
Could you think about a way to do this in a cleaner way? Maybe use a
struct page * in both kmem_get/freepages? Or add some comment explaining
the situation?
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