Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/9] mm: rearrange struct page

[Dave Hansen]

On 01/16/2014 10:34 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jan 2014, Dave Hansen wrote:
>> This makes it *MUCH* more clear how the first few fields of
>> 'struct page' get used by the slab allocators.
> 
> I think this adds to the confusion. What you want to know is which other
> fields overlap a certain field. After this patch you wont have that
> anymore.

Why does it matter *specifically* that "index shares space with
freelist", or that "mapping shares space with s_mem"?  No data is ever
handed off in those fields.

All that matters is that we know the _set_ of fields that gets reused,
and that we preserve the ones which *need* their contents preserved
(only flags and _count as far as I can tell).
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