struct page field arrangement
- From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:31:43 +0000
A change early last year reordered struct page so that ptl overlaps not only
private, but also mapping. Since spinlock_t can be much larger, I'm wondering
whether there's a reason to not also overlay the space index and lru take -
are these used for anything on page table pages?
Thanks, Jan
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