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authorDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>2015-09-25 10:46:07 -0400
committerDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>2015-09-25 10:46:07 -0400
commit310b7cec8ea32dcd4e9978423717ce78dd89d45d (patch)
treeed7de6ce3c25829d0e7de10d0db9b83c725ee327 /kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
parente116a64fab650aed3d7b9b4db0b59c07f361bc9f (diff)
parent1f93e4a96c9109378204c147b3eec0d0e8100fde (diff)
Merge tag 'v4.3-rc2' into k.o/for-4.3-v1
Linux 4.3-rc2
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/events/ring_buffer.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/ring_buffer.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
index c8aa3f75bc4d..182bc30899d5 100644
--- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
@@ -437,7 +437,10 @@ static struct page *rb_alloc_aux_page(int node, int order)
if (page && order) {
/*
- * Communicate the allocation size to the driver
+ * Communicate the allocation size to the driver:
+ * if we managed to secure a high-order allocation,
+ * set its first page's private to this order;
+ * !PagePrivate(page) means it's just a normal page.
*/
split_page(page, order);
SetPagePrivate(page);