Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm/slob: Use free_page instead of put_page for page-sizekmalloc allocations

[Glauber Costa]

On 10/22/2012 04:04 PM, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> When freeing objects, the slob allocator currently free empty pages
> calling __free_pages(). However, page-size kmallocs are disposed
> using put_page() instead.
> 
> It makes no sense to call put_page() for kernel pages that are provided
> by the object allocator, so we shouldn't be doing this ourselves.
> 
> This is based on:
> commit d9b7f22623b5fa9cc189581dcdfb2ac605933bf4
> Author: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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