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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2006-03-22 00:08:05 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-22 07:53:57 -0800
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[PATCH] mm: split highorder pages
Have an explicit mm call to split higher order pages into individual pages. Should help to avoid bugs and be more explicit about the code's intention. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 85e80a57db29..6af555c1c42a 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1221,9 +1221,7 @@ out:
* The page has to be a nice clean _individual_ kernel allocation.
* If you allocate a compound page, you need to have marked it as
* such (__GFP_COMP), or manually just split the page up yourself
- * (which is mainly an issue of doing "set_page_count(page, 1)" for
- * each sub-page, and then freeing them one by one when you free
- * them rather than freeing it as a compound page).
+ * (see split_page()).
*
* NOTE! Traditionally this was done with "remap_pfn_range()" which
* took an arbitrary page protection parameter. This doesn't allow