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slab: Use page struct fields instead of casting

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Add fields to the page struct so that it is properly documented that
slab overlays the lru fields.

This cleans up some casts in slab.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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Christoph Lameter 2012-06-13 10:24:55 -05:00 committed by Pekka Enberg
parent b5568280c9
commit e571b0ad34
2 changed files with 8 additions and 4 deletions
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include/linux/mm_types.h
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@ -110,6 +110,10 @@ struct page {
};
struct list_head list; /* slobs list of pages */
struct { /* slab fields */
struct kmem_cache *slab_cache;
struct slab *slab_page;
};
};
/* Remainder is not double word aligned */

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mm/slab.c
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@ -496,25 +496,25 @@ static bool slab_max_order_set __initdata;
*/
static inline void page_set_cache(struct page *page, struct kmem_cache *cache)
{
page->lru.next = (struct list_head *)cache;
page->slab_cache = cache;
}
static inline struct kmem_cache *page_get_cache(struct page *page)
{
page = compound_head(page);
BUG_ON(!PageSlab(page));
return (struct kmem_cache *)page->lru.next;
return page->slab_cache;
}
static inline void page_set_slab(struct page *page, struct slab *slab)
{
page->lru.prev = (struct list_head *)slab;
page->slab_page = slab;
}
static inline struct slab *page_get_slab(struct page *page)
{
BUG_ON(!PageSlab(page));
return (struct slab *)page->lru.prev;
return page->slab_page;
}
static inline struct kmem_cache *virt_to_cache(const void *obj)