From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Calling free_pages on part of the memory returned by get_free_pages?
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:12:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <480D032E.20204@freescale.com> (raw)
According to LDD3, if I call get_free_pages() to allocate X bytes, I have to
free all of those pages with free_pages(). The VM internals are a little bit
over my head, but I looked at the code and I didn't see why that is a requirement.
For example, let's say I want to allocated 6MB of physically-contiguous memory.
If I call x = get_free_pages(11) to get 8MB. What happens if I then do
"free_pages(x + 6 * 1024 * 1024, 9)"?
I remember doing this on the 2.4 kernel, and it never gave me any problems.
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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
next reply other threads:[~2008-04-21 21:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-21 21:12 Timur Tabi [this message]
2008-04-24 19:27 ` Calling free_pages on part of the memory returned by get_free_pages? Andi Kleen
2008-04-24 19:32 ` Timur Tabi
2008-05-09 22:33 ` Timur Tabi
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