[PATCH v2 3/5] mm/page_alloc.c: fix obsolete comment in free_pcppages_bulk()
From: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Date: 2021-09-02 12:12:36
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memory management, memory management - page allocator, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Morton, Vlastimil Babka, Linus Torvalds
The second two paragraphs about "all pages pinned" and pages_scanned is obsolete. And There are PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER + 1 + NR_PCP_THP orders in pcp. So the same order assumption is not held now. Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 8 +------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index d3983244f56f..f7fcbac2d091 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c@@ -1426,14 +1426,8 @@ static inline void prefetch_buddy(struct page *page) /* * Frees a number of pages from the PCP lists - * Assumes all pages on list are in same zone, and of same order. + * Assumes all pages on list are in same zone. * count is the number of pages to free. - * - * If the zone was previously in an "all pages pinned" state then look to - * see if this freeing clears that state. - * - * And clear the zone's pages_scanned counter, to hold off the "all pages are - * pinned" detection logic. */ static void free_pcppages_bulk(struct zone *zone, int count, struct per_cpu_pages *pcp)
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