Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 02:20:49 +0100 (CET) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: Extend clear_page by an order parameter |
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Hi,
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote: > > > > A cluster of 2^n contiguous pages > > isn't one page by any normal definition. > > It is, actually, from the POV of the page allocator. It's a "higher order > page" and is controlled by a struct page*, just like a zero-order page...
OTOH we also have alloc_page/alloc_pages.
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