linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv3 0/5] Fix compound

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Date:	Mon, 24 Aug 2015 12:36:07 +0300
From:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 0/5] Fix compound_head() race

On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 01:13:19PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Yes, I did think the compound destructor enum stuff over-engineered,
> and would have preferred just direct calls to free_compound_page()
> or free_huge_page() myself.  But when I tried to make a patch on
> top to do that, even when I left PageHuge out-of-line (which had
> certainly not been my intention), it still generated more kernel
> text than Kirill's enum version (maybe his "- 1" in compound_head
> works better in some places than masking out 3, I didn't study);
> so let's forget about that.

I had my agenda on ->compound_dtor: my refcounting patchset introduces
one more compound destructor. I wanted to avoid hardcoding them here.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov
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