On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Christoph Lameter <c...@linux.com> wrote:
> Ending a list with NULL means that the termination of a list is the same
> for all slab pages. The pointers of freelists otherwise always are
> pointing to the address space of the page. Make termination of a
> list possible by setting the lowest bit in the freelist address
> and use the start address of a page if no other address is available
> for list termination.
>
> This will allow us to determine the page struct address from a
> freelist pointer in the future.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <c...@linux.com>

Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penb...@kernel.org>
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