linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] reuse __free_pages_exact() in __alloc_pages

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1104141459510.13286@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:00:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] reuse __free_pages_exact() in
 __alloc_pages_exact()

On Thu, 14 Apr 2011, Dave Hansen wrote:

> 
> Michal Nazarewicz noticed that __alloc_pages_exact()'s
> __free_page() loop was really close to something he was
> using in one of his patches.   That made me realize that
> it was actually very similar to __free_pages_exact().
> 
> This uses __free_pages_exact() in place of the loop
> that we had in __alloc_pages_exact().  Since we had to
> change the temporary variables around anyway, I gave
> them some better names to hopefully address some other
> review comments.
> 

No signed-off-by?

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/