Re: [PATCH] mm/percpu.c: use smarter memory allocation for struct pcpu_alloc_info

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Wed Oct 04 2017 - 10:15:38 EST


Hello,

On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 06:29:49PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> Subject: [PATCH] percpu: don't forget to free the temporary struct pcpu_alloc_info
>
> Unlike the SMP case, the !SMP case does not free the memory for struct
> pcpu_alloc_info allocated in setup_per_cpu_areas(). And to give it a
> chance of being reused by the page allocator later, align it to a page
> boundary just like its size.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to percpu/for-4.15 w/ Dennis's ack.

Thanks.

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tejun