Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > >
> > > > yuck. What is the real problem btw? AFAICS there's enough space for a
> > > > 2-word spinlock in struct page for pagetables.
> > >
> > > Yes. There is no real problem. But my patch offends good taste.
> >
> > Isn't it going to overrun page.lru with CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK?
>
> No.
!no, methinks.
On 32-bit architectures with CONFIG_PREEMPT, CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK,
CONFIG_NR_CPUS >= CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS we have a 32-byte page, a
20-byte spinlock and offsetof(page, private) == 12.
IOW we're assuming that no 32-bit architectures will obtain pagetables from
slab?
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