[PATCH -mm] slab: document kmalloc_order

[Vladimir Davydov]

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/slab_common.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
index cab4c49b3e8c..3ffd2e76b5d2 100644
--- a/mm/slab_common.c
+++ b/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -573,6 +573,11 @@ void __init create_kmalloc_caches(unsigned long flags)
 }
 #endif /* !CONFIG_SLOB */
 
+/*
+ * To avoid unnecessary overhead, we pass through large allocation requests
+ * directly to the page allocator. We use __GFP_COMP, because we will need to
+ * know the allocation order to free the pages properly in kfree.
+ */
 void *kmalloc_order(size_t size, gfp_t flags, unsigned int order)
 {
 	void *ret;
-- 
1.7.10.4

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