Re: [PATCH] mm, slob: Drop usage of page->private for storing page-sized allocations

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Hi Christoph,

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
>
>> This field was being used to store size allocation so it could be
>> retrieved by ksize(). However, it is a bad practice to not mark a page
>> as a slab page and then use fields for special purposes.
>> There is no need to store the allocated size and
>> ksize() can simply return PAGE_SIZE << compound_order(page).
>
> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
>

Who's the slob maintainer? Currently MAINTAINERS file
mentions slob's author Matt Mackal, but I didn't notice his presence
in this ML.

Thanks,
Ezequiel.

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