slab: Use page struct fields instead of casting
Add fields to the page struct so that it is properly documented that
slab overlays the lru fields.
This cleans up some casts in slab.
Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index e901a36..af05147 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -496,25 +496,25 @@
*/
static inline void page_set_cache(struct page *page, struct kmem_cache *cache)
{
- page->lru.next = (struct list_head *)cache;
+ page->slab_cache = cache;
}
static inline struct kmem_cache *page_get_cache(struct page *page)
{
page = compound_head(page);
BUG_ON(!PageSlab(page));
- return (struct kmem_cache *)page->lru.next;
+ return page->slab_cache;
}
static inline void page_set_slab(struct page *page, struct slab *slab)
{
- page->lru.prev = (struct list_head *)slab;
+ page->slab_page = slab;
}
static inline struct slab *page_get_slab(struct page *page)
{
BUG_ON(!PageSlab(page));
- return (struct slab *)page->lru.prev;
+ return page->slab_page;
}
static inline struct kmem_cache *virt_to_cache(const void *obj)