mm/slob: Drop usage of page->private for storing page-sized allocations
authorEzequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:33:10 +0000 (09:33 -0300)
committerPekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Wed, 31 Oct 2012 06:50:43 +0000 (08:50 +0200)
This field was being used to store size allocation so it could be
retrieved by ksize(). However, it is a bad practice to not mark a page
as a slab page and then use fields for special purposes.
There is no need to store the allocated size and
ksize() can simply return PAGE_SIZE << compound_order(page).

Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>

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