> On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 01:43 -0700, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> > +PAGEFLAG(Young, young)
> > +
> > +PAGEFLAG(Idle, idle)
> > +
> > +static inline void set_page_young(struct page *page)
> > +{
> > + if (!PageYoung(page))
> > + SetPageYoung(page);
> > +}
> > +
> > +static inline void clear_page_idle(struct page *page)
> > +{
> > + if (PageIdle(page))
> > + ClearPageIdle(page);
> > +}
>
> Is it time for a CONFIG_X86_32_STRUCT_PAGE_IS_NOW_A_BLOATED_BIG config
> option? If folks want these kinds of features, then they need to suck
> it up and make their 'struct page' 36 bytes. Any of these new page
> flags features could:
>
> config EXTENDED_PAGE_FLAGS
> depends on 64BIT || X86_32_STRUCT_PAGE_IS_NOW_A_BLOATED_BIG
>
> config KSTALED
> depends on EXTENDED_PAGE_FLAGS
>
> And then we can wrap the "enum pageflags" entries for them in #ifdefs,
> along with making page->flags a u64 when
> X86_32_STRUCT_PAGE_IS_NOW_A_BLOATED_BIG is set.
Right.
x86_32 has no left space for new flags and 36byte struct page is unacceptable.
Hmm...
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