mm/slob: Use free_page instead of put_page for page-size kmalloc allocations

When freeing objects, the slob allocator currently free empty pages
calling __free_pages(). However, page-size kmallocs are disposed
using put_page() instead.

It makes no sense to call put_page() for kernel pages that are provided
by the object allocator, so we shouldn't be doing this ourselves.

This is based on:
commit d9b7f22623
Author: Glauber Costa <[email protected]>
slub: use free_page instead of put_page for freeing kmalloc allocation

Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
Cc: Matt Mackall <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
This commit is contained in:
Ezequiel Garcia 2012-10-22 09:04:31 -03:00 • committed by Pekka Enberg
commit 8cf9864b13

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@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ void kfree(const void *block)
unsigned int *m = (unsigned int *)(block - align);
slob_free(m, *m + align);
} else
put_page(sp);
__free_pages(sp, compound_order(sp));
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree);