Subject: [merged] slab-document-kmalloc_order.patch removed from -mm tree To: vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,cl@xxxxxxxxx,penberg@xxxxxxxxxx,mm-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx From: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 12:49:29 -0700 The patch titled Subject: slab: document kmalloc_order has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was slab-document-kmalloc_order.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: slab: document kmalloc_order Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slab_common.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff -puN mm/slab_common.c~slab-document-kmalloc_order mm/slab_common.c --- a/mm/slab_common.c~slab-document-kmalloc_order +++ a/mm/slab_common.c @@ -582,6 +582,11 @@ void __init create_kmalloc_caches(unsign } #endif /* !CONFIG_SLOB */ +/* + * To avoid unnecessary overhead, we pass through large allocation requests + * directly to the page allocator. We use __GFP_COMP, because we will need to + * know the allocation order to free the pages properly in kfree. + */ void *kmalloc_order(size_t size, gfp_t flags, unsigned int order) { void *ret; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html