Re: [PATCH -tip 3/3] kprobes: cleanup: use list instead of hlistfor insn_pages

[Ingo Molnar]

* Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Use struct list instead of struct hlist for managing insn_pages, 
> because insn_pages doesn't use hash table.

>  struct kprobe_insn_page {
> -	struct hlist_node hlist;
> +	struct list_head list;

Hm, you know that this increases the size of kprobe_insn_page by 4/8 
bytes, right?

hlists are not just used for hashes - but also when we want a more 
compact / smaller list head.

How many kprobe_insn_page's can be allocated in the system, 
maximally?

	Ingo
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