linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] page_cgroup: Reduce allocation overhead for page_cgroup array for CONFIG

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Date:	Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:12:00 +0100
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] page_cgroup: Reduce allocation overhead for
 page_cgroup array for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM v4

On Mon 28-02-11 18:48:21, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:53:16 +0100
> > From e7a897a42b526620eb4afada2d036e1c9ff9e62a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
> > Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:43:12 +0100
> > Subject: [PATCH] page_cgroup array is never stored on reserved pages
> > 
> > KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki noted that free_pages_cgroup doesn't have to check for
> > PageReserved because we never store the array on reserved pages
> > (neither alloc_pages_exact nor vmalloc use those pages).
> > 
> > So we can replace the check by a BUG_ON.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
> > CC: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
> 
> Thank you.
> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>

Thanks!

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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