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

From: Ezequiel Garcia
Date: Mon Oct 22 2012 - 08:04:31 EST


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>
slub: use free_page instead of put_page for freeing kmalloc allocation

Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/slob.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slob.c b/mm/slob.c
index a65e802..362632d 100644
--- a/mm/slob.c
+++ b/mm/slob.c
@@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ void kfree(const void *block)
unsigned int *m = (unsigned int *)(block - align);
slob_free(m, *m + align);
} else
- put_page(sp);
+ __free_pages(sp, compound_order(sp));
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree);

--
1.7.8.6

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