Re: Fwd: [PATCH] Pageset Localization V2

[Matthew Wilcox]

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?

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