Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] mm/page_alloc: use a single function to free page

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On 11/6/18 12:31 PM, Aaron Lu wrote:
> We have multiple places of freeing a page, most of them doing similar
> things and a common function can be used to reduce code duplicate.
> 
> It also avoids bug fixed in one function but left in another.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

Thanks!

> ---
> v3: Vlastimil mentioned the possible performance loss by using
>     page_ref_sub_and_test(page, 1) for put_page_testzero(page), since
>     we aren't sure so be safe by keeping page ref decreasing code as
>     is, only move freeing page part to a common function.




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