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

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Date:	Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:07:16 +0200
From:	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] mm: add arch_alloc_page

On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 16:56 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > With Nicks patch I can use arch_alloc_page instead of page_set_stable,
> > but I can still not use arch_free_page instead of page_set_unused
> > because it is done before the check for reserved pages. If reserved
> > pages go away or the arch_free_page call would get moved after the check
> > I could replace page_set_unused as well. So with Nicks patch we are only
> > halfway there..
> 
> Ahh, but with my patchSET I think we are all the way there ;)

Oh, good. Then I only have to add two more state change functions,
namely page_make_stable and page_make_volatile.

-- 
blue skies,
  Martin.

Martin Schwidefsky
Linux for zSeries Development & Services
IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.


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