mm: sl[uo]b: fix misleading comments

On x86, SLUB creates and handles <=8192-byte allocations internally.
It passes larger ones up to the allocator.  Saying "up to order 2" is,
at best, ambiguous.  Is that order-1?  Or (order-2 bytes)?  Make
it more clear.

SLOB commits a similar sin.  It *handles* page-size requests, but the
comment says that it passes up "all page size and larger requests".

SLOB also swaps around the order of the very-similarly-named
KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH and KMALLOC_SHIFT_MAX #defines.  Make it
consistent with the order of the other two allocators.

Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>

diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index 1e2f4fe12773bdaf9c5ffddd9b5eb77d42b665a0..f76e956b4011e2a67ee7b1fafa283bc2ebc8e483 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -205,8 +205,8 @@ struct kmem_cache {
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SLUB
 /*
- * SLUB allocates up to order 2 pages directly and otherwise
- * passes the request to the page allocator.
+ * SLUB directly allocates requests fitting in to an order-1 page
+ * (PAGE_SIZE*2).  Larger requests are passed to the page allocator.
  */
 #define KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH     (PAGE_SHIFT + 1)
 #define KMALLOC_SHIFT_MAX      (MAX_ORDER + PAGE_SHIFT)
@@ -217,12 +217,12 @@ struct kmem_cache {
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SLOB
 /*
- * SLOB passes all page size and larger requests to the page allocator.
+ * SLOB passes all requests larger than one page to the page allocator.
  * No kmalloc array is necessary since objects of different sizes can
  * be allocated from the same page.
  */
-#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_MAX      30
 #define KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH     PAGE_SHIFT
+#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_MAX      30
 #ifndef KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW
 #define KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW      3
 #endif