tree 351dc5d9c09a4fe3d122c2157a298852ac8a821c
parent 545b1ea9bfa5a8ca9af33d63144bd4f2faaea8dd
author Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> 1143014888 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> 1143042838 -0800

[PATCH] hugepage allocator cleanup

Insert "fresh" huge pages into the hugepage allocator by the same means as
they are freed back into it.  This reduces code size and allows
enqueue_huge_page to be inlined into the hugepage free fastpath.

Eliminate occurances of hugepages on the free list with non-zero refcount.
This can allow stricter refcount checks in future.  Also required for
lockless pagecache.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>

"This patch also eliminates a leak "cleaned up" by re-clobbering the
refcount on every allocation from the hugepage freelists.  With respect to
the lockless pagecache, the crucial aspect is to eliminate unconditional
set_page_count() to 0 on pages with potentially nonzero refcounts, though
closer inspection suggests the assignments removed are entirely spurious."

Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>