From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mm/page_alloc.c: remove hand-coded get_order()
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:39:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ej97tna8.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080415092317.GA1529@elf.ucw.cz> (Pavel Machek's message of "Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:23:27 +0200")
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-15 10:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-15 9:23 mm/page_alloc.c: remove hand-coded get_order() Pavel Machek
2008-04-15 9:35 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-15 9:38 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-15 10:39 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-04-16 19:18 ` Christoph Lameter
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