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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 15:16:36 +0200 (EET)
From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, cl@...two.org,
kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/2] mm: blk-mq: uses page->list incorrectly
Dave Hansen wrote:
>
> From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
>
> 'struct page' has two list_head fields: 'lru' and 'list'.
> Conveniently, they are unioned together. This means that code
> can use them interchangably, which gets horribly confusing.
>
> The blk-mq made the logical decision to try to use page->list.
> But, that field was actually introduced just for the slub code.
> ->lru is the right field to use outside of slab/slub.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Looks good to me.
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
for both.
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Kirill A. Shutemov
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