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On Tue, 14 Jan 2014, Dave Hansen wrote:

>
> This makes it *MUCH* more clear how the first few fields of
> 'struct page' get used by the slab allocators.

I think this adds to the confusion. What you want to know is which other
fields overlap a certain field. After this patch you wont have that
anymore.