Re: is remap_pfn_range should align to 2(n) * (page size) ?

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:18:27AM +0800, zhuzhenhua wrote:

> > This has nothing to do with remap_pfn_range but with the power of two
> > sized buckets used by the global free page pool.  Any allocation with
> > get_free_pages will be rounded up to the next power of two.  If that's a
> > real concern for you you could allocate a 4MB page then split the page
> > into a 2MB and two 1MB pages and free the 1MB page again.

> thanks for your reply , i see in get_frree_pages and free_pages there is a
> get_order(size).
> but i don't understand  " allocate a 4MB page then split the page
> into a 2MB and two 1MB pages and free the 1MB page again."
> is there any function to split it?

No, you'd have to code that yourself.  Take a look at split_page() which
splits an order n page into order 0 pages.  You'd want something similar
but splitting for some non-zero order.

  Ralf