From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:36:07 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: Fwd: [PATCH] Pageset Localization V2 In-Reply-To: <20050331144740.GB21986@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Message-ID: References: <20050330111439.GA13110@infradead.org> <1112187977.9773.15.camel@kuber> <20050331143235.GA18058@infradead.org> <20050331144740.GB21986@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Christoph Hellwig , shobhit dayal , 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, 31 Mar 2005, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > 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? The code runs during startup and the section containing the old pointers is discarded at the end of the boot process. -- 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