Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:00:37 -0800 (PST) | | From | Christoph Lameter <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] slab: remove colouroff from struct slab |
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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? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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