struct page field arrangement

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From: Jan Beulich
Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 - 7:31 am

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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struct page field arrangement, Jan Beulich, (Wed Feb 28, 7:31 am)
Re: struct page field arrangement, Hugh Dickins, (Wed Feb 28, 2:08 pm)