On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 10:26:29AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 11:19:37AM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> On 8/14/19 8:57 AM, Wei Yang wrote:
>> > On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 10:16:11PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> >>Btw, is there any good reason we don't use a list_head for vma linkage?
>> >
>> > Not sure, maybe there is some historical reason?
>>
>> Seems it was single-linked until 2010 commit 297c5eee3724 ("mm: make the vma
>> list be doubly linked") and I guess it was just simpler to add the vm_prev link.
>>
>> Conversion to list_head might be an interesting project for some "advanced
>> beginner" in the kernel :)
>
>I'm working to get rid of vm_prev and vm_next, so it would probably be
>wasted effort.
You mean replace it with list_head?
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