On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 07:15:05PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:

From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>

page->freelist is for the use of slab.  Using page->index is the same
set of bits as page->freelist, and by using an integer instead of a
pointer, we can avoid casts.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <redacted>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <redacted>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>