[PATCH] hugepage allocator cleanup
Insert "fresh" huge pages into the hugepage allocator by the same means as they are freed back into it. This reduces code size and allows enqueue_huge_page to be inlined into the hugepage free fastpath. Eliminate occurances of hugepages on the free list with non-zero refcount. This can allow stricter refcount checks in future. Also required for lockless pagecache. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> "This patch also eliminates a leak "cleaned up" by re-clobbering the refcount on every allocation from the hugepage freelists. With respect to the lockless pagecache, the crucial aspect is to eliminate unconditional set_page_count() to 0 on pages with potentially nonzero refcounts, though closer inspection suggests the assignments removed are entirely spurious." Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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