* repetitive reinitialization of active_list and inactive_list in free_area_init_core()
@ 2002-06-02 21:51 William Lee Irwin III
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From: William Lee Irwin III @ 2002-06-02 21:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel; +Cc: trivial
inactive_list and active_list are global, yet they are repeatedly
initialized using INIT_LIST_HEAD() in free_area_init_core(). This
patch is originally due to Christoph Hellwig, and by some reports
has been implementated before in 2.4-based trees by Andrea Arcangeli.
Against 2.5.19.
===== mm/page_alloc.c 1.63 vs edited =====
--- 1.63/mm/page_alloc.c Tue May 28 16:57:49 2002
+++ edited/mm/page_alloc.c Sun Jun 2 14:46:14 2002
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
unsigned long totalram_pages;
unsigned long totalhigh_pages;
int nr_swap_pages;
-struct list_head inactive_list;
-struct list_head active_list;
+LIST_HEAD(active_list);
+LIST_HEAD(inactive_list);
pg_data_t *pgdat_list;
/* Used to look up the address of the struct zone encoded in page->zone */
@@ -826,9 +826,6 @@
realtotalpages -= zholes_size[i];
printk("On node %d totalpages: %lu\n", nid, realtotalpages);
-
- INIT_LIST_HEAD(&active_list);
- INIT_LIST_HEAD(&inactive_list);
/*
* Some architectures (with lots of mem and discontinous memory
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