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From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, aarcange@redhat.com,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc.c: drop dead destroy_compound_page()
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 20:29:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150106182954.GA30484@node.dhcp.inet.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54AC1ED5.2050101@suse.cz>

On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 06:43:49PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 01/05/2015 12:46 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > The only caller is __free_one_page(). By the time we should have
> > page->flags to be cleared already:
> > 
> >  - for 0-order pages though PCP list:
> 
> Can there even be a 0-order compound page? I guess not, so this is just confusing?

No, it can't.

Since I propose the VM_BUG_ON(page->flags), I tried to make point that
flags are cleared by the point in any case.

> Otherwise it seems like you are right and it's a dead code to be removed. I
> tried to check history to see when it was actually needed, but seems it predates
> git.

Yeah. But we keep updating it...

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-06 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-05 11:46 [PATCH] mm/page_alloc.c: drop dead destroy_compound_page() Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-01-06 17:43 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-01-06 18:29   ` Kirill A. Shutemov [this message]
2015-01-07 21:40 ` Andrew Morton
2015-01-08 14:10   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-01-10  0:24     ` Andrew Morton
2015-01-10  0:41       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-01-10  1:06         ` Andrew Morton
2015-01-10  1:15           ` Kirill A. Shutemov

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