On 07/07/17 21:48, Jerome Glisse wrote: > I believe there is enough unuse field that for vmalloc pages that > you should find one you can use. Just add some documentation in > mm_types.h so people are aware of alternate use for the field you > are using. I ended up using page->private and the corresponding bit. Because page-private is an opaque field, specifically reserved for the allocator, I think it should not be necessary to modify mm_types.h The reworked patch is here: https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=149969928920772&w=2 -- thanks, igor -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>