linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] mm: deduplicate cacheline padding code

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Date:   Mon, 29 Aug 2022 16:00:41 +0800
From:   Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>
To:     Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
CC:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm: deduplicate cacheline padding code

On Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 07:06:42AM +0800, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> There are three users (mmzone.h, memcontrol.h, page_counter.h) using
> similar code for forcing cacheline padding between fields of different
> structures. Dedup that code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
> Suggested-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>

Reviewed-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>

Thanks,
Feng

> ---
> Changes since v1:
> - add semicolons in mmzone.h
> 
>  include/linux/cache.h        | 13 +++++++++++++
>  include/linux/memcontrol.h   | 13 ++-----------
>  include/linux/mmzone.h       | 24 +++++-------------------
>  include/linux/page_counter.h | 13 ++-----------
>  4 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
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