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

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On 30/01/18 02:43, Jerome Glisse wrote:

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> Maybe we can kill page->mapping altogether as a result of this. However this is
> not my motivation at this time.

We had a discussion some time ago

http://www.openwall.com/lists/kernel-hardening/2017/07/07/7

where you advised to use it for tracking pmalloc pages vs area, which
generated this patch:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/kernel-hardening/2018/01/24/7

Could you please comment what wold happen to the shortcut from struct
page to vm_struct that this patch is now introducing?


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thanks, igor

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