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| -rw-r--r-- | mm/slab_common.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c index 1950c8f4d1a6..2834bc2886fd 100644 --- a/mm/slab_common.c +++ b/mm/slab_common.c @@ -582,6 +582,11 @@ void __init create_kmalloc_caches(unsigned long flags) } #endif /* !CONFIG_SLOB */ +/* + * To avoid unnecessary overhead, we pass through large allocation requests + * directly to the page allocator. We use __GFP_COMP, because we will need to + * know the allocation order to free the pages properly in kfree. + */ void *kmalloc_order(size_t size, gfp_t flags, unsigned int order) { void *ret; |