mm/slob: Drop usage of page->private for storing page-sized allocations

This field was being used to store size allocation so it could be
retrieved by ksize(). However, it is a bad practice to not mark a page
as a slab page and then use fields for special purposes.
There is no need to store the allocated size and
ksize() can simply return PAGE_SIZE << compound_order(page).

Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/mm/slob.c b/mm/slob.c
index a08e4681fd0d..06a5ec70e728 100644
--- a/mm/slob.c
+++ b/mm/slob.c
@@ -28,9 +28,8 @@
  * from kmalloc are prepended with a 4-byte header with the kmalloc size.
  * If kmalloc is asked for objects of PAGE_SIZE or larger, it calls
  * alloc_pages() directly, allocating compound pages so the page order
- * does not have to be separately tracked, and also stores the exact
- * allocation size in page->private so that it can be used to accurately
- * provide ksize(). These objects are detected in kfree() because slob_page()
+ * does not have to be separately tracked.
+ * These objects are detected in kfree() because PageSlab()
  * is false for them.
  *
  * SLAB is emulated on top of SLOB by simply calling constructors and
@@ -455,11 +454,6 @@ __do_kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t gfp, int node, unsigned long caller)
                 if (likely(order))
                         gfp |= __GFP_COMP;
                 ret = slob_new_pages(gfp, order, node);
-                if (ret) {
-                        struct page *page;
-                        page = virt_to_page(ret);
-                        page->private = size;
-                }
 
                 trace_kmalloc_node(caller, ret,
                                    size, PAGE_SIZE << order, gfp, node);
@@ -514,18 +508,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree);
 size_t ksize(const void *block)
 {
         struct page *sp;
+        int align;
+        unsigned int *m;
 
         BUG_ON(!block);
         if (unlikely(block == ZERO_SIZE_PTR))
                 return 0;
 
         sp = virt_to_page(block);
-        if (PageSlab(sp)) {
-                int align = max(ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN, ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN);
-                unsigned int *m = (unsigned int *)(block - align);
-                return SLOB_UNITS(*m) * SLOB_UNIT;
-        } else
-                return sp->private;
+        if (unlikely(!PageSlab(sp)))
+                return PAGE_SIZE << compound_order(sp);
+
+        align = max(ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN, ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN);
+        m = (unsigned int *)(block - align);
+        return SLOB_UNITS(*m) * SLOB_UNIT;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(ksize);