Re: [PATCHv3 0/5] Fix compound_head() race

["Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 01:13:19PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Yes, I did think the compound destructor enum stuff over-engineered,
> and would have preferred just direct calls to free_compound_page()
> or free_huge_page() myself.  But when I tried to make a patch on
> top to do that, even when I left PageHuge out-of-line (which had
> certainly not been my intention), it still generated more kernel
> text than Kirill's enum version (maybe his "- 1" in compound_head
> works better in some places than masking out 3, I didn't study);
> so let's forget about that.

I had my agenda on ->compound_dtor: my refcounting patchset introduces
one more compound destructor. I wanted to avoid hardcoding them here.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

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