Re: [PATCH v2 00/15] slab: overload struct slab over struct page toreduce memory usage

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 16 Oct 2013, Andrew Morton wrote:

> This issue hasn't been well thought through.  Given a random struct
> page, there isn't any protocol to determine what it actually *is*.
> It's a plain old variant record, but it lacks the agreed-upon tag field
> which tells users which variant is currently in use.

This issue has bitten us when SLUB was first introduced. We found out the
hard way f.e. that the mapping field had meaning in various contexts for a
slab page.

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