linux-kernel - Re: mm/page_alloc.c: remove hand-coded get

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Message-ID: <87ej97tna8.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Date:	Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:39:27 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mm/page_alloc.c: remove hand-coded get_order()

Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> writes:
>
> What about creating void *get_free_pages(flags, order) version, then
> slowly converting users to it?

Then we would also need a free_pages() that takes void *, but unfortunately
free_pages() already has other semantics.

-Andi
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