On Wed, 10 Dec 2014, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > +static bool same_slab_page(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page, void *p)
>
> Why are you passing a pointer to struct kmem_cache here? You don't
> seem to use it.
True.
> > +{
> > + long d = p - page->address;
> > +
> > + return d > 0 && d < (1 << MAX_ORDER) && d < (compound_order(page) << PAGE_SHIFT);
> > +}
>
> Can you elaborate on what this is doing? I don't really understand it.
Checks if the pointer points to the slab page. Also it tres to avoid
having to call compound_order needlessly. Not sure if that optimization is
worth it.
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