From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Matt Porter <porter@cox.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.4] update ref counts on all allocated pages
Date: 27 Nov 2002 19:33:17 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1038454397.17075.4.camel@rth.ninka.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021127082556.A26524@home.com>
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 07:25, Matt Porter wrote:
> To clarify then, on an order>0 allocation, it is only valid/defined
> to free the same order of pages. Is that a true statement? If so,
> I'll submit a docs patch and adjust our our local implementation.
Yes, this is correct and it's what everyone does. The exceptions
mess with the page counts themselves, look at the sparc64
pmd/pte dual-page allocations for example.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-28 3:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-27 0:07 Matt Porter
2002-11-27 10:31 ` David S. Miller
2002-11-27 15:25 ` Matt Porter
2002-11-28 3:33 ` David S. Miller [this message]
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