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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-03-16 11:51:08 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-03-16 11:51:08 -0700
commit271ecc5253e2b317d729d366560789cd7f93836c (patch)
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parentMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68k (diff)
parentautofs4: fix string.h include in auto_dev-ioctl.h (diff)
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Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: - some misc things - ofs2 updates - about half of MM - checkpatch updates - autofs4 update * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (120 commits) autofs4: fix string.h include in auto_dev-ioctl.h autofs4: use pr_xxx() macros directly for logging autofs4: change log print macros to not insert newline autofs4: make autofs log prints consistent autofs4: fix some white space errors autofs4: fix invalid ioctl return in autofs4_root_ioctl_unlocked() autofs4: fix coding style line length in autofs4_wait() autofs4: fix coding style problem in autofs4_get_set_timeout() autofs4: coding style fixes autofs: show pipe inode in mount options kallsyms: add support for relative offsets in kallsyms address table kallsyms: don't overload absolute symbol type for percpu symbols x86: kallsyms: disable absolute percpu symbols on !SMP checkpatch: fix another left brace warning checkpatch: improve UNSPECIFIED_INT test for bare signed/unsigned uses checkpatch: warn on bare unsigned or signed declarations without int checkpatch: exclude asm volatile from complex macro check mm: memcontrol: drop unnecessary lru locking from mem_cgroup_migrate() mm: migrate: consolidate mem_cgroup_migrate() calls mm/compaction: speed up pageblock_pfn_to_page() when zone is contiguous ...
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@@ -28,10 +28,11 @@ with page owner and page owner is disabled in runtime due to no enabling
boot option, runtime overhead is marginal. If disabled in runtime, it
doesn't require memory to store owner information, so there is no runtime
memory overhead. And, page owner inserts just two unlikely branches into
-the page allocator hotpath and if it returns false then allocation is
-done like as the kernel without page owner. These two unlikely branches
-would not affect to allocation performance. Following is the kernel's
-code size change due to this facility.
+the page allocator hotpath and if not enabled, then allocation is done
+like as the kernel without page owner. These two unlikely branches should
+not affect to allocation performance, especially if the static keys jump
+label patching functionality is available. Following is the kernel's code
+size change due to this facility.
- Without page owner
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