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    slub: Commonize slab_cache field in struct page · 1b4f59e3
    Glauber Costa authored
    
    
    Right now, slab and slub have fields in struct page to derive which
    cache a page belongs to, but they do it slightly differently.
    
    slab uses a field called slab_cache, that lives in the third double
    word. slub, uses a field called "slab", living outside of the
    doublewords area.
    
    Ideally, we could use the same field for this. Since slub heavily makes
    use of the doubleword region, there isn't really much room to move
    slub's slab_cache field around. Since slab does not have such strict
    placement restrictions, we can move it outside the doubleword area.
    
    The naming used by slab, "slab_cache", is less confusing, and it is
    preferred over slub's generic "slab".
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGlauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
    CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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