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mm: add free_hot_cold_page_list() helper
authorKonstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:50:18 +0000 (10:50 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:08:08 +0000 (16:08 +1000)
commit944e397c30956d51bc0d39f33ddaf3576ee4dc4e
tree10109e92b2e5cbb0262cd1161ae389764e8ac4bf
parent81aad417a62a01c1655fbc1cd52e82bd7ecf3b27
mm: add free_hot_cold_page_list() helper

This patch adds helper free_hot_cold_page_list() to free list of 0-order
pages.  It frees pages directly from list without temporary page-vector.
It also calls trace_mm_pagevec_free() to simulate pagevec_free()
behaviour.

bloat-o-meter:

add/remove: 1/1 grow/shrink: 1/3 up/down: 267/-295 (-28)
function                                     old     new   delta
free_hot_cold_page_list                        -     264    +264
get_page_from_freelist                      2129    2132      +3
__pagevec_free                               243     239      -4
split_free_page                              380     373      -7
release_pages                                606     510     -96
free_page_list                               188       -    -188

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <>
include/linux/gfp.h
mm/page_alloc.c
mm/swap.c
mm/vmscan.c