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Alok Mooley wrote:

> The regular buddy freeing function also increases the
>number of free pages. Since we are not actually
>freeing pages (we are just moving them), we do not
>want the original freeing function. But then we could 
>decrease the number of free pages by the same number &
>use the buddy freeing function. Will do. Thanks.
>  
>
Then you need to split the parts you want out into sub-functions and 
call it from the previous callers, and your new use for it...