Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:47:40 +0100
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       shobhit dayal <shobhit@calsoftinc.com>, christoph@lameter.com,
       manfred@colorfullife.com, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
       Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: [PATCH] Pageset Localization V2
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On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:32:35PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Which would be much nicer done using INIT_LIST_HEAD on the new head
> always and then calling list_replace (of which currently only a _rcu variant
> exists).

INIT_LIST_HEAD followed by list_splice() should do the trick, I think.
BTW, is it a problem that the list head which the list was copied from
still points into the list?

-- 
"Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon 
the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those
conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse
to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince 
himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep 
he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." -- Mark Twain
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