lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2002]   [Nov]   [27]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: [PATCH][2.4] update ref counts on all allocated pages
From
Date
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 07:25, Matt Porter wrote:
> To clarify then, on an order>0 allocation, it is only valid/defined
> to free the same order of pages. Is that a true statement? If so,
> I'll submit a docs patch and adjust our our local implementation.

Yes, this is correct and it's what everyone does. The exceptions
mess with the page counts themselves, look at the sparc64
pmd/pte dual-page allocations for example.

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:31    [W:0.047 / U:0.236 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site