Re: [PATCH 0/4] mm: Use slab_list list_head instead of lru

[Roman Gushchin]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 07:38:28PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 12:05:54PM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> > > slab_list and lru are in the same bits.  Once this patch set is in,
> > > we can remove the enigmatic 'uses lru' comment that I added.
> > 
> > Funny you should say this, I came to me today while daydreaming that I
> > should have removed that comment :)
> > 
> > I'll remove it in v2.
> 
> That's great.  BTW, something else you could do to verify this patch
> set is check that the object file is unchanged before/after the patch.
> I tend to use 'objdump -dr' to before.s and after.s and use 'diff'
> to compare the two.

Btw, is it guaranteed that the object file will not change?
I was about to recommend the same, but was not sure, if such change
can cause gcc to generate a *slightly* different obj code.

Thanks!