Re: [PATCH 7/8] mm: Document how to use struct page

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On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 09:53:16AM -0600, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Dec 2017, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
> > + * If you allocate pages of order > 0, you can use the fields in the struct
> > + * page associated with each page, but bear in mind that the pages may have
> > + * been inserted individually into the page cache, so you must use the above
> > + * three fields in a compatible way for each struct page.
> 
> If they are inserted into the page cache then also other fields are
> required like the lru one right?

No. For compound pages, only head is on lru.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

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