From: "Benjamin C.R. LaHaise" <blah@kvack.org>
To: Bulent Abali <abali@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: (struct page *)->list
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 21:39:36 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010407213805.29335A-100000@kanga.kvack.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFF7EEC8B0.74CE8D02-ON85256A27.0079C289@pok.ibm.com>
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Bulent Abali wrote:
> The question is if I unhook the page->list field after
> page=alloc_page() and add page->list to my private linked list
> will that cause a problem elsewhere in the kernel?
This isn't portable between 2.2 and 2.4. Treating struct page as an
opaque type is the recommended strategy.
-ben
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2001-04-07 22:30 Bulent Abali
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