[PATCHv5 2/7] slub: use page->rcu_head instead of page->lru plus cast

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Thu Sep 03 2015 - 08:37:50 EST


We have properly typed page->rcu_head, no need to cast page->lru.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/slub.c | 5 +----
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 816df0016555..869642d03b22 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1510,10 +1510,7 @@ static void free_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page)
VM_BUG_ON(s->reserved != sizeof(*head));
head = page_address(page) + offset;
} else {
- /*
- * RCU free overloads the RCU head over the LRU
- */
- head = (void *)&page->lru;
+ head = &page->rcu_head;
}

call_rcu(head, rcu_free_slab);
--
2.5.0

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