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authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>2012-01-10 15:08:10 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-01-10 16:30:44 -0800
commitc3993076f842de3754360e5b998d6657a9d30303 (patch)
tree78c1ca3d031483932e2f236706b20064742c0b0c /mm
parent43d2b113241d6797b890318767e0af78e313414b (diff)
downloadlinux-c3993076f842de3754360e5b998d6657a9d30303.tar.gz
mm: page_alloc: generalize order handling in __free_pages_bootmem()
__free_pages_bootmem() used to special-case higher-order frees to save
individual page checking with free_pages_bulk().

Nowadays, both zero order and non-zero order frees use free_pages(), which
checks each individual page anyway, and so there is little point in making
the distinction anymore.  The higher-order loop will work just fine for
zero order pages.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c33
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 59153da58c69..794e6715c226 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -730,32 +730,23 @@ static void __free_pages_ok(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
 }
 
-/*
- * permit the bootmem allocator to evade page validation on high-order frees
- */
 void __meminit __free_pages_bootmem(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
 {
-	if (order == 0) {
-		__ClearPageReserved(page);
-		set_page_count(page, 0);
-		set_page_refcounted(page);
-		__free_page(page);
-	} else {
-		int loop;
-
-		prefetchw(page);
-		for (loop = 0; loop < (1 << order); loop++) {
-			struct page *p = &page[loop];
+	unsigned int nr_pages = 1 << order;
+	unsigned int loop;
 
-			if (loop + 1 < (1 << order))
-				prefetchw(p + 1);
-			__ClearPageReserved(p);
-			set_page_count(p, 0);
-		}
+	prefetchw(page);
+	for (loop = 0; loop < nr_pages; loop++) {
+		struct page *p = &page[loop];
 
-		set_page_refcounted(page);
-		__free_pages(page, order);
+		if (loop + 1 < nr_pages)
+			prefetchw(p + 1);
+		__ClearPageReserved(p);
+		set_page_count(p, 0);
 	}
+
+	set_page_refcounted(page);
+	__free_pages(page, order);
 }