After moving the lockless_freelist to kmem_cache_cpu we no longer need page->lockless_freelist. Restructure the use of the struct page fields in such a way that we never touch the mapping field. This is turn allows us to remove the special casing of SLUB when determining the mapping of a page (needed for corner cases of virtual caches machines that need to flush caches of processors mapping a page). Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter --- include/linux/mm_types.h | 9 ++------- mm/slub.c | 2 -- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.23-rc3-mm1/include/linux/mm_types.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.23-rc3-mm1.orig/include/linux/mm_types.h 2007-08-22 17:14:32.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc3-mm1/include/linux/mm_types.h 2007-08-22 17:20:13.000000000 -0700 @@ -62,13 +62,8 @@ struct page { #if NR_CPUS >= CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS spinlock_t ptl; #endif - struct { /* SLUB uses */ - void **lockless_freelist; - struct kmem_cache *slab; /* Pointer to slab */ - }; - struct { - struct page *first_page; /* Compound pages */ - }; + struct kmem_cache *slab; /* SLUB: Pointer to slab */ + struct page *first_page; /* Compound tail pages */ }; union { pgoff_t index; /* Our offset within mapping. */ Index: linux-2.6.23-rc3-mm1/mm/slub.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.23-rc3-mm1.orig/mm/slub.c 2007-08-22 17:20:05.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc3-mm1/mm/slub.c 2007-08-22 17:20:13.000000000 -0700 @@ -1125,7 +1125,6 @@ static struct page *new_slab(struct kmem set_freepointer(s, last, NULL); page->freelist = start; - page->lockless_freelist = NULL; page->inuse = 0; out: if (flags & __GFP_WAIT) @@ -1151,7 +1150,6 @@ static void __free_slab(struct kmem_cach NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE : NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE, - pages); - page->mapping = NULL; __free_pages(page, s->order); } -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/