On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually I looked both at the struct and at the slab alignment just in
> case it was changed recently. Now after reading your mail I also
> compiled it just in case.
>
> @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ struct anon_vma {
> struct anon_vma {
>
> spinlock_t lock; /* Serialize access to vma list */
>
> struct list_head head; /* List of private "related" vmas */
> + int flag:1;
> };
You might want to read carefully what Linus wrote:
> The one that already has a 4 byte padding thing on x86-64 just after the
> spinlock? And that on 32-bit x86 (with less than 256 CPU's) would have two
> bytes of padding if we didn't just make the spinlock type unconditionally
> 32 bits rather than the 16 bits we actually _use_?
So you need to add the flag _after_ ->lock and _before_ ->head....
Pekka
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