On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 09:52:08PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:18:33 +1000 Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > Introduce a type of hlist that can support the use of the lowest bit
> > in the hlist_head. This will be subsequently used to implement
> > per-bucket bit spinlock for inode hashes.
> >
> >
> > ...
> >
> > +static inline void INIT_HLIST_BL_NODE(struct hlist_bl_node *h)
> > +{
> > + h->next = NULL;
> > + h->pprev = NULL;
> > +}
>
> No need to shout.
Just following the rest of the lists.
> > ...
> >
> > +static inline void hlist_bl_del(struct hlist_bl_node *n)
> > +{
> > + __hlist_bl_del(n);
> > + n->next = LIST_POISON1;
> > + n->pprev = LIST_POISON2;
> > +}
>
> I'd suggest creating new poison values for hlist_bl's, leave
> LIST_POISON1 and LIST_POISON2 for list_head (and any other list
> variants which went and used them :()
I guess they're used for lists, hlists, nulls lists. Would it really
help much seeing as you have so many lists anyway? I guess we could
do an incremental patch but I'll postpone it for now.
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