On Fri, 21 Aug 2015, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > Is this really true? For example if it's a slab page, will that page > > ever be inspected by code which is looking for the PageTail bit? > > +Christoph. > > What we know for sure is that space is not used in tail pages, otherwise > it would collide with current compound_dtor. Sl*b allocators only do a virt_to_head_page on tail pages. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>