Revert "mm: create a separate slab for page->ptl allocation"
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 20 Nov 2013 22:41:47 +0000 (14:41 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 20 Nov 2013 22:41:47 +0000 (14:41 -0800)
commit8b2e9b712f6139df9c754af0d67fecc4bbc88545
tree4260126ffc11a2e60d92f3f9304bc2ea02516332
parentb5898cd057001336888b6aff601385b5f5e79b01
Revert "mm: create a separate slab for page->ptl allocation"

This reverts commit ea1e7ed33708c7a760419ff9ded0a6cb90586a50.

Al points out that while the commit *does* actually create a separate
slab for the page->ptl allocation, that slab is never actually used, and
the code continues to use kmalloc/kfree.

Damien Wyart points out that the original patch did have the conversion
to use kmem_cache_alloc/free, so it got lost somewhere on its way to me.

Revert the half-arsed attempt that didn't do anything.  If we really do
want the special slab (remember: this is all relevant just for debug
builds, so it's not necessarily all that critical) we might as well redo
the patch fully.

Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kirill A Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mm.h
init/main.c
mm/memory.c