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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 08:33:38 +0000
Subject: Re: Prezeroing V2 [2/4]: add second parameter to clear_page() for all arches
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To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
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Hi!

> o Extend clear_page to take an order parameter for all architectures.
> 

I believe you sould leave clear_page() as is, and introduce
clear_pages() with two arguments.
				Pavel

> -extern void clear_page (void *page);
> +extern void clear_page (void *page, int order);
>  extern void copy_page (void *to, void *from);
> 

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