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To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mm/page_alloc.c: remove hand-coded get_order()
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
References: <20080415092317.GA1529@elf.ucw.cz>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:39:27 +0200
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Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> writes:
>
> What about creating void *get_free_pages(flags, order) version, then
> slowly converting users to it?

Then we would also need a free_pages() that takes void *, but unfortunately
free_pages() already has other semantics.

-Andi