SLUB: Do not use page->mapping After moving the lockless_freelist to kmem_cache_cpu we no longer need page->lockless_freelist. Restructure the use of the struct page fields in such a way that we never touch the mapping field. This is turn allows us to remove the special casing of SLUB when determining the mapping of a page (needed for corner cases of virtual caches machines that need to flush caches of processors mapping a page). Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter --- include/linux/mm.h | 4 ---- include/linux/mm_types.h | 9 ++------- mm/slub.c | 2 -- 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.23-rc1/include/linux/mm.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.23-rc1.orig/include/linux/mm.h 2007-07-27 21:34:36.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc1/include/linux/mm.h 2007-07-27 21:35:54.000000000 -0700 @@ -630,10 +630,6 @@ static inline struct address_space *page VM_BUG_ON(PageSlab(page)); if (unlikely(PageSwapCache(page))) mapping = &swapper_space; -#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB - else if (unlikely(PageSlab(page))) - mapping = NULL; -#endif else if (unlikely((unsigned long)mapping & PAGE_MAPPING_ANON)) mapping = NULL; return mapping; Index: linux-2.6.23-rc1/include/linux/mm_types.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.23-rc1.orig/include/linux/mm_types.h 2007-07-27 21:34:36.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc1/include/linux/mm_types.h 2007-07-27 21:35:54.000000000 -0700 @@ -49,13 +49,8 @@ struct page { #if NR_CPUS >= CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS spinlock_t ptl; #endif - struct { /* SLUB uses */ - void **lockless_freelist; - struct kmem_cache *slab; /* Pointer to slab */ - }; - struct { - struct page *first_page; /* Compound pages */ - }; + struct kmem_cache *slab; /* SLUB: Pointer to slab */ + struct page *first_page; /* Compound tail pages */ }; union { pgoff_t index; /* Our offset within mapping. */ Index: linux-2.6.23-rc1/mm/slub.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.23-rc1.orig/mm/slub.c 2007-07-27 21:35:43.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc1/mm/slub.c 2007-07-27 21:35:54.000000000 -0700 @@ -1115,7 +1115,6 @@ static struct page *new_slab(struct kmem set_freepointer(s, last, NULL); page->freelist = start; - page->lockless_freelist = NULL; page->inuse = 0; out: if (flags & __GFP_WAIT) @@ -1140,7 +1139,6 @@ static void __free_slab(struct kmem_cach NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE : NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE, - pages); - page->mapping = NULL; __free_pages(page, s->order); }