From: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
To: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] mm/page_alloc : modify the return type of __free_one_page
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:25:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100118112554.GC7499@csn.ul.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1263184634-15447-3-git-send-email-shijie8@gmail.com>
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:37:13PM +0800, Huang Shijie wrote:
> Modify the return type for __free_one_page.
> It will return 1 on success, and return 0 when
> the check of the compound page is failed.
>
Why?
I assume it's something to do with patch 4, but it's unclear at this
point why it's necessary. A brief explanation is needed in the
changelog.
> Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>
> ---
> mm/page_alloc.c | 10 ++++++----
> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 00aa83a..290dfc3 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -445,17 +445,18 @@ static inline int page_is_buddy(struct page *page, struct page *buddy,
> * triggers coalescing into a block of larger size.
> *
> * -- wli
> + *
> + * Returns 1 on success, else return 0;
> */
>
> -static inline void __free_one_page(struct page *page,
> - struct zone *zone, unsigned int order,
> - int migratetype)
> +static inline int __free_one_page(struct page *page, struct zone *zone,
> + unsigned int order, int migratetype)
> {
> unsigned long page_idx;
>
> if (unlikely(PageCompound(page)))
> if (unlikely(destroy_compound_page(page, order)))
> - return;
> + return 0;
>
> VM_BUG_ON(migratetype == -1);
>
> @@ -485,6 +486,7 @@ static inline void __free_one_page(struct page *page,
> list_add(&page->lru,
> &zone->free_area[order].free_list[migratetype]);
> zone->free_area[order].nr_free++;
> + return 1;
> }
>
> /*
> --
> 1.6.5.2
>
--
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-18 11:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-11 4:37 [PATCH 1/4] mm/page_alloc : rename rmqueue_bulk to rmqueue_single Huang Shijie
2010-01-11 4:37 ` [PATCH 2/4] mm/page_alloc : relieve the zone->lock's pressure for allocation Huang Shijie
2010-01-11 4:37 ` [PATCH 3/4] mm/page_alloc : modify the return type of __free_one_page Huang Shijie
2010-01-11 4:37 ` [PATCH 4/4] mm/page_alloc : relieve zone->lock's pressure for memory free Huang Shijie
2010-01-11 5:20 ` Minchan Kim
2010-01-11 6:01 ` Huang Shijie
2010-01-11 6:27 ` Huang Shijie
2010-01-11 6:38 ` Minchan Kim
2010-01-11 6:59 ` Huang Shijie
2010-01-12 0:47 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-12 2:02 ` Huang Shijie
2010-01-12 2:07 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-12 2:32 ` Huang Shijie
2010-01-12 2:27 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-01-12 2:56 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-01-12 3:02 ` Huang Shijie
2010-01-12 4:05 ` Minchan Kim
2010-01-12 4:21 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-01-12 4:32 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-12 4:59 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-01-12 5:09 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-01-12 5:10 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-01-12 7:36 ` David Rientjes
2010-01-12 8:56 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-01-12 21:39 ` David Rientjes
2010-01-13 0:01 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-01-12 4:48 ` Minchan Kim
2010-01-12 2:51 ` Huang Shijie
2010-01-12 3:03 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-01-12 3:05 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-01-11 5:04 ` [PATCH 3/4] mm/page_alloc : modify the return type of __free_one_page Minchan Kim
2010-01-12 2:56 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-01-18 11:25 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2010-01-19 1:49 ` Huang Shijie
2010-01-11 5:02 ` [PATCH 2/4] mm/page_alloc : relieve the zone->lock's pressure for allocation Minchan Kim
2010-01-11 5:13 ` Huang Shijie
2010-01-12 2:54 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-01-18 11:24 ` Mel Gorman
2010-01-11 5:00 ` [PATCH 1/4] mm/page_alloc : rename rmqueue_bulk to rmqueue_single Minchan Kim
2010-01-12 2:52 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-01-18 11:21 ` Mel Gorman
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