linux-kernel - Re: [patch 3/3] mm: add arch_alloc

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Date:	Sun, 08 Oct 2006 11:39:48 +1000
From:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
CC:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] mm: add arch_alloc_page

Andrew Morton wrote:

>On Sat,  7 Oct 2006 15:06:04 +0200 (CEST)
>Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de> wrote:
>
>
>>Add an arch_alloc_page to match arch_free_page.
>>
>
>umm.. why?
>

I had a future patch to more kernel_map_pages into it, but couldn't
decide if that's a generic kernel feature that is only implemented in
2 architectures, or an architecture speicifc feature. So I left it out.

But at least Martin wanted a hook here for his volatile pages patches,
so I thought I'd submit this patch anyway.

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