Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:24:54 -0200 (BRDT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Wiring down Pages |
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On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Robert Read wrote: > On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 06:46:33PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > page_cache_drop(page); <= removes your extra count > > I can't find that function, do you mean page_cache_free() and > page_cache_release(), both are aliases for __free_page(). Maybe > we need another alias. :)
page_cache_release(), indeed. My bad...
> Should non-page cache related code use get_page() and > __free_page() directly? Or should the page_cache_* macros be > used everywhere?
The non-page cache related code should use get_page() and __free_page() (put_page?) directly. There may come a day where the pagecache page size can be different from the page size ...
regards,
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