Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Killing reliance on struct page->mapping

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On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 12:42:45PM -0500, Jerome Glisse wrote:
> The overall idea i have is that in any place in the kernel (except memory reclaim
> but that's ok) we can either get mapping or buffer_head information without relying
> on struct page and if we have either one and a struct page then we can find the
> other one.

Why is it okay for reclaim?

And what about physical memory scanners that doesn't have any side information
about the page they step onto?

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov



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