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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 00:35:09 +0000
Subject: Re: Extend clear_page by an order parameter
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To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, akpm@osdl.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Christoph Lameter writes:

> clear_page clears one page of the specified order.

Now you're really being confusing.  A cluster of 2^n contiguous pages
isn't one page by any normal definition.  Call it "clear_page_cluster"
or "clear_page_order" or something, but not "clear_page".

Paul.