Re: [patch 3/3] mm: add arch_alloc_page

Nick Piggin
2006-10-08T01:39:56Z

Andrew Morton wrote:

>On Sat, 7 Oct 2006 15:06:04 +0200 (CEST)
>Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote:
>
>
>>Add an arch_alloc_page to match arch_free_page.
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>
>umm.. why?
>

I had a future patch to more kernel_map_pages into it, but couldn't
decide if that's a generic kernel feature that is only implemented in
2 architectures, or an architecture speicifc feature. So I left it out.

But at least Martin wanted a hook here for his volatile pages patches,
so I thought I'd submit this patch anyway.

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