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Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 14:06:53 -0600 (CST)
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/19] mm: store mapcount for compound page separate
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Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>, "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>, Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org

On Wed, 19 Nov 2014, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:

> I don't think we want to bloat struct page description: nobody outside of
> helpers should use it direcly. And it's exactly what we did to store
> compound page destructor and compound page order.

This is more like a description what overloading is occurring. Either
add the new way of using it there including a comment explainng things or
please do not overload the field.

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