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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: apw@shadowen.org, agl@us.ibm.com, mbligh@us.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc64-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: put_page() tries to handle hugepages but fails
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 21:47:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040426214757.2c7d8ed5.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040427043652.GF514@zax>

David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
>
> +		if (put_page_testzero(page))
>  +			free_huge_page(page);

Well yes, but this is assuming that compound pages are always hugetlb pages.

It's true at present, but it doesn't have to always be true.  The cost of
the destructor is zilch, so why not?

Please review the changes which went into 2.6.6-rc2-mm2.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-27  4:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-23  8:18 David Gibson
2004-04-23  8:34 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-23 10:28   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-23 10:35     ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-23 10:47       ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-23 11:28         ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-27  4:36   ` David Gibson
2004-04-27  4:41     ` David Gibson
2004-04-27  4:47     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-04-27  5:05       ` David Gibson
2004-04-27  5:15         ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-27  5:16           ` David Gibson

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