Re: [patch] slub: fix a code merge error

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>
> Indeed. Please resend with proper subject and changelog with
> Christoph's and David's ACKs included.

Pekka:

SLUB stat attribute was designed for stat accounting only. I checked
the total 24 attributes that used now. All of them used in stat() only
except the DEACTIVATE_TO_HEAD/TAIL.

And in fact, in the most of using scenarios the DEACTIVATE_TO_TAIL
make reader confuse, TO_TAIL is correct but not for DEACTIVATE.

Further more, CL also regretted this after he acked the original
patches for this attribute mis-usages. He said "don't think we want
this patch any more."
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/67653 and want to use
a comment instead of this confusing usage.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/29/187

So, as to this regression, from my viewpoint, reverting the
DEACTIVATE_TO_TAIL incorrect usage(commit 136333d104) is a better way.
 :)

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