The patch titled page allocator: do not check for compound pages during the page allocator sanity checks has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was page-allocator-do-not-check-for-compound-pages-during-the-page-allocator-sanity-checks.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: page allocator: do not check for compound pages during the page allocator sanity checks From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> A number of sanity checks are made on each page allocation and free including that the page count is zero. page_count() checks for compound pages and checks the count of the head page if true. However, in these paths, we do not care if the page is compound or not as the count of each tail page should also be zero. This patch makes two changes to the use of page_count() in the free path. It converts one check of page_count() to a VM_BUG_ON() as the count should have been unconditionally checked earlier in the free path. It also avoids checking for compound pages. [mel@xxxxxxxxx: Wrote changelog] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~page-allocator-do-not-check-for-compound-pages-during-the-page-allocator-sanity-checks mm/page_alloc.c --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~page-allocator-do-not-check-for-compound-pages-during-the-page-allocator-sanity-checks +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ static inline int page_is_buddy(struct p return 0; if (PageBuddy(buddy) && page_order(buddy) == order) { - BUG_ON(page_count(buddy) != 0); + VM_BUG_ON(page_count(buddy) != 0); return 1; } return 0; @@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ static inline int free_pages_check(struc { if (unlikely(page_mapcount(page) | (page->mapping != NULL) | - (page_count(page) != 0) | + (atomic_read(&page->_count) != 0) | (page->flags & PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE))) { bad_page(page); return 1; @@ -642,7 +642,7 @@ static int prep_new_page(struct page *pa { if (unlikely(page_mapcount(page) | (page->mapping != NULL) | - (page_count(page) != 0) | + (atomic_read(&page->_count) != 0) | (page->flags & PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP))) { bad_page(page); return 1; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch page_alloc-oops-when-setting-percpu_pagelist_fraction.patch vfs-take-2add-set_page_dirty_notag.patch reiser4.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