RE: [PATCH 2/2] mm: blk-mq: uses page->list incorrectly

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Thu Dec 12 2013 - 08:16:45 EST


Dave Hansen wrote:
>
> From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 'struct page' has two list_head fields: 'lru' and 'list'.
> Conveniently, they are unioned together. This means that code
> can use them interchangably, which gets horribly confusing.
>
> The blk-mq made the logical decision to try to use page->list.
> But, that field was actually introduced just for the slub code.
> ->lru is the right field to use outside of slab/slub.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

for both.

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