Re: [PATCH] slab: remove colouroff from struct slab

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Pekka J Enberg wrote:

> As the color offset is always within the first page of the slab,
> virt_to_page() works just fine without slabp->colouroff.

True but then we pass an address to kmem_freepages that is not the start 
of the page. kmem_freepages will then in turn call free_pages() with an 
address that is not the start of a page. free_pages() will then do another 
virt_to_page() which ignored the offset into the page again. And so the 
approach works but an uneasy feeling remains since the address we got from 
kmem_getpages() is different from what we pass to kmem_freepages().

Could you think about a way to do this in a cleaner way? Maybe use a 
struct page * in both kmem_get/freepages? Or add some comment explaining 
the situation?
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