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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:27:45 +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.
> 
> Did that in V1 and Andi Kleen complained about it.

I do not know what Andi said, but having clear_page clearing two
page*s* seems wrong to me.
								Pavel
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