Re: Fwd: [PATCH] Pageset Localization V2

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:32:35PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Which would be much nicer done using INIT_LIST_HEAD on the new head
> > always and then calling list_replace (of which currently only a _rcu variant
> > exists).
>
> INIT_LIST_HEAD followed by list_splice() should do the trick, I think.
> BTW, is it a problem that the list head which the list was copied from
> still points into the list?

The code runs during startup and the section containing the old pointers
is discarded at the end of the boot process.
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