Michal Nazarewicz noticed that __alloc_pages_exact()'s
__free_page() loop was really close to something he was
using in one of his patches. That made me realize that
it was actually very similar to __free_pages_exact().
This uses __free_pages_exact() in place of the loop
that we had in __alloc_pages_exact(). Since we had to
change the temporary variables around anyway, I gave
them some better names to hopefully address some other
review comments.
---
linux-2.6.git-dave/mm/page_alloc.c | 9 +++------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~reuse-free-exact mm/page_alloc.c
--- linux-2.6.git/mm/page_alloc.c~reuse-free-exact 2011-04-14 12:03:10.132795021 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.git-dave/mm/page_alloc.c 2011-04-14 12:03:10.144795019 -0700
@@ -2338,14 +2338,11 @@ struct page *__alloc_pages_exact(gfp_t g
page = alloc_pages(gfp_mask, order);
if (page) {
- struct page *alloc_end = page + (1 << order);
- struct page *used = page + nr_pages;
+ struct page *unused_start = page + nr_pages;
+ unsigned long nr_unused = (1 << order) - nr_pages;
split_page(page, order);
- while (used < alloc_end) {
- __free_page(used);
- used++;
- }
+ __free_pages_exact(unused_start, nr_unused);
}
return page;
_
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