Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Feb 2023 17:04:01 +0100 | Subject | Re: [RFC v3 2/4] mm: move PG_slab flag to page_type | From | David Hildenbrand <> |
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On 30.01.23 06:11, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 01:34:59PM +0900, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote: >>> Seems like quite some changes to page_type to accomodate SLAB, which is >>> hopefully going away soon(TM). Could we perhaps avoid that? >> >> If it could be done with less changes, I'll try to avoid that. > > Let me outline the idea I had for removing PG_slab: > > Observe that PG_reserved and PG_slab are mutually exclusive. Also,
I recall that there are SetPageReserved() calls on pages allocated via slab.
-- Thanks,
David / dhildenb
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