From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:47:40 +0100 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: Fwd: [PATCH] Pageset Localization V2 Message-ID: <20050331144740.GB21986@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <20050330111439.GA13110@infradead.org> <1112187977.9773.15.camel@kuber> <20050331143235.GA18058@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050331143235.GA18058@infradead.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Hellwig , shobhit dayal , christoph@lameter.com, manfred@colorfullife.com, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Shai Fultheim List-ID: On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:32:35PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Which would be much nicer done using INIT_LIST_HEAD on the new head > always and then calling list_replace (of which currently only a _rcu variant > exists). INIT_LIST_HEAD followed by list_splice() should do the trick, I think. BTW, is it a problem that the list head which the list was copied from still points into the list? -- "Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." -- Mark Twain -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org