Re: [RFC v3 2/4] mm: move PG_slab flag to page_type

[David Hildenbrand]

On 30.01.23 06:11, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 01:34:59PM +0900, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote:
> > > Seems like quite some changes to page_type to accomodate SLAB, which is
> > > hopefully going away soon(TM). Could we perhaps avoid that?
> >
> > If it could be done with less changes, I'll try to avoid that.
>
> Let me outline the idea I had for removing PG_slab:
>
> Observe that PG_reserved and PG_slab are mutually exclusive.  Also,

I recall that there are SetPageReserved() calls on pages allocated via slab.

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb