Re: [PATCH 02/16] slab: change return type of kmem_getpages() tostruct page

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 22 Aug 2013, Joonsoo Kim wrote:

> @@ -2042,7 +2042,7 @@ static void slab_destroy_debugcheck(struct kmem_cache *cachep, struct slab *slab
>   */
>  static void slab_destroy(struct kmem_cache *cachep, struct slab *slabp)
>  {
> -	void *addr = slabp->s_mem - slabp->colouroff;
> +	struct page *page = virt_to_head_page(slabp->s_mem);
>
>  	slab_destroy_debugcheck(cachep, slabp);
>  	if (unlikely(cachep->flags & SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU)) {

Ok so this removes slab offset management. The use of a struct page
pointer therefore results in coloring support to be not possible anymore.

I would suggest to have a separate patch for coloring removal before this
patch. It seems that the support is removed in two different patches now.

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