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slob: fix page order calculation on not 4KB page

PATCH In review Akinobu Mita 2 participants 2 messages Apr 29, 2007 Memory management

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PATCH 1/1 slob: fix page order calculation on not 4KB page

SLOB doesn't caluclate correct page order when page size is not 4KB. This patch fixes it with using get_order() instead of find_order() which is SLOB version of get_order().

mm/slob.c +3 -12
Index: 2.6-mm/mm/slob.c
===================================================================
@@ -150,15 +150,6 @@ static void slob_free(void *block, int s
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&slob_lock, flags);
 }
 
-static int FASTCALL(find_order(int size));
-static int fastcall find_order(int size)
-{
-	int order = 0;
-	for ( ; size > 4096 ; size >>=1)
-		order++;
-	return order;
-}
-
 void *__kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t gfp)
 {
 	slob_t *m;
@@ -174,7 +165,7 @@ void *__kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t gfp)
 	if (!bb)
 		return 0;
 
-	bb->order = find_order(size);
+	bb->order = get_order(size);
 	bb->pages = (void *)__get_free_pages(gfp, bb->order);
 
 	if (bb->pages) {
@@ -318,7 +309,7 @@ void *kmem_cache_alloc(struct kmem_cache
 	if (c->size < PAGE_SIZE)
 		b = slob_alloc(c->size, flags, c->align);
 	else
-		b = (void *)__get_free_pages(flags, find_order(c->size));
+		b = (void *)__get_free_pages(flags, get_order(c->size));
 
 	if (c->ctor)
 		c->ctor(b, c, SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR);
@@ -345,7 +336,7 @@ void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *
 	if (c->size < PAGE_SIZE)
 		slob_free(b, c->size);
 	else
-		free_pages((unsigned long)b, find_order(c->size));
+		free_pages((unsigned long)b, get_order(c->size));
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_free);
 
Acked-by on v1 1/1
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Quoted 3 lines · Akinobu Mita

SLOB doesn't caluclate correct page order when page size is not 4KB. This patch fixes it with using get_order() instead of find_order() which is SLOB version of get_order().

Doh, that's a pretty blatant use of a magic number.

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