Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 1/9] Guest page hinting: unused / free pages. | From | Dave Hansen <> | Date | Fri, 01 Sep 2006 08:33:41 -0700 |
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On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 13:09 +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > +++ linux-2.6-patched/mm/page_alloc.c 2006-09-01 12:49:35.000000000 > +0200 > @@ -515,6 +515,7 @@ static void __free_pages_ok(struct page > reserved += free_pages_check(page + i); > if (reserved) > return; > + page_set_unused(page, order); > > kernel_map_pages(page, 1 << order, 0); > local_irq_save(flags);
Do these have anything in common with arch_free_page()? I thought marking the pages as being "unused by the kernel" was the whole idea of having that hook.
-- Dave
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