Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Jan 2014 02:20:01 +0200 | From | "Kirill A. Shutemov" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/9] mm: rearrange struct page |
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On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:00:55AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > > From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> > > To make the layout of 'struct page' look nicer, I broke > up a few of the unions. But, this has a cost: things that > were guaranteed to line up before might not any more. To make up > for that, some BUILD_BUG_ON()s are added to manually check for > the alignment dependencies. > > This makes it *MUCH* more clear how the first few fields of > 'struct page' get used by the slab allocators. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Looks much cleaner!
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
-- Kirill A. Shutemov
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