Hello akpm, At the very beginning in 2.4 days, in mnt_init(), mount_hashtable allocation page order was determined at runtime. Later the page order got fixed to 0. This patch cleanups it.
Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -Nrup 2.6.11/fs/namespace.c 2.6.11-cy/fs/namespace.c --- 2.6.11/fs/namespace.c 2005-03-03 17:11:56.000000000 +0800 +++ 2.6.11-cy/fs/namespace.c 2005-03-08 04:52:30.000000000 +0800 @@ -1392,16 +1392,14 @@ static void __init init_mount_tree(void) void __init mnt_init(unsigned long mempages) { struct list_head *d; - unsigned long order; unsigned int nr_hash; int i; mnt_cache = kmem_cache_create("mnt_cache", sizeof(struct vfsmount), 0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC, NULL, NULL); - order = 0; mount_hashtable = (struct list_head *) - __get_free_pages(GFP_ATOMIC, order); + __get_free_page(GFP_ATOMIC); if (!mount_hashtable) panic("Failed to allocate mount hash table\n"); @@ -1411,7 +1409,7 @@ void __init mnt_init(unsigned long mempa * We don't guarantee that "sizeof(struct list_head)" is necessarily * a power-of-two. */ - nr_hash = (1UL << order) * PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct list_head); + nr_hash = PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct list_head); hash_bits = 0; do { hash_bits++; @@ -1426,7 +1424,7 @@ void __init mnt_init(unsigned long mempa hash_mask = nr_hash-1; printk("Mount-cache hash table entries: %d (order: %ld, %ld bytes)\n", - nr_hash, order, (PAGE_SIZE << order)); + nr_hash, 0, PAGE_SIZE); /* And initialize the newly allocated array */ d = mount_hashtable; -- Coywolf Qi Hunt Homepage http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/