linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm/mmap.c: extract __vma_unlink_list as counter part for __vma_link

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Message-ID: <20190814065703.GA6433@richard>
Date:   Wed, 14 Aug 2019 14:57:03 +0800
From:   Wei Yang <richardw.yang@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     Wei Yang <richardw.yang@...ux.intel.com>,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mgorman@...hsingularity.net,
        vbabka@...e.cz, osalvador@...e.de, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm/mmap.c: extract __vma_unlink_list as counter part
 for __vma_link_list

On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 10:16:11PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>Btw, is there any good reason we don't use a list_head for vma linkage?

Not sure, maybe there is some historical reason?

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