Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 2] Xen core patch : arch_free_page return value | From | Dave Hansen <> | Date | Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:04:36 -0800 |
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On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 15:48, Ian Pratt wrote: > This patch adds a return value to the existing arch_free_page function > that indicates whether the normal free routine still has work to > do. The only architecture that currently uses arch_free_page is arch > 'um'. arch-xen needs this for 'foreign pages' - pages that don't > belong to the page allocator but are instead managed by custom > allocators.
But, you're modifying page allocator functions to do this. Why would you call __free_pages_ok() on a page that didn't belong to the page allocator?
-- Dave
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