From: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] make new alloc_pages_exact()
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:04:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1302620653.8321.1725.camel@nimitz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.vttl1ho83l0zgt@mnazarewicz-glaptop>
On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 12:28 +0200, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
> > Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >> +void __free_pages_exact(struct page *page, size_t nr_pages)
> >> +{
> >> + struct page *end = page + nr_pages;
> >> +
> >> + while (page < end) {
> >> + __free_page(page);
> >> + page++;
> >> + }
> >> +}
> >> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__free_pages_exact);
>
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:22:23 +0200, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Really, this function duplicates release_pages().
>
> It requires an array of pointers to pages which is not great though if one
> just wants to free a contiguous sequence of pages.
Actually, the various mem_map[]s _are_ arrays, at least up to
MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES at a time. We can use that property here.
-- Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-12 15:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-11 22:03 [PATCH 1/3] rename alloc_pages_exact() Dave Hansen
2011-04-11 22:03 ` [PATCH 2/3] make new alloc_pages_exact() Dave Hansen
2011-04-11 22:22 ` Andrew Morton
2011-04-11 22:36 ` Dave Hansen
2011-04-11 22:42 ` Timur Tabi
2011-04-12 10:28 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-04-12 15:04 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2011-04-12 15:58 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-04-13 23:23 ` Dave Hansen
2011-04-11 22:03 ` [PATCH 3/3] reuse __free_pages_exact() in __alloc_pages_exact() Dave Hansen
2011-04-12 10:29 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-04-12 15:24 ` Dave Hansen
2011-04-12 15:57 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-04-12 17:07 ` [PATCH 1/3] rename alloc_pages_exact() Namhyung Kim
2011-04-12 17:11 ` Dave Hansen
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2011-04-14 20:01 Dave Hansen
2011-04-14 20:01 ` [PATCH 2/3] make new alloc_pages_exact() Dave Hansen
2011-04-14 21:55 ` David Rientjes
2011-04-27 21:30 ` Timur Tabi
2011-04-27 21:37 ` Dave Hansen
2011-04-27 21:42 ` Timur Tabi
2011-04-28 16:02 ` Dave Hansen
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