From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.167.49]) by mtagate6.de.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k9BF7Eks131652 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:07:14 GMT Received: from d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.165.228]) by d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/NCO v8.1.1) with ESMTP id k9BF9ZNm3076342 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:09:35 +0200 Received: from d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k9BF7D9F003687 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:07:13 +0200 Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] mm: add arch_alloc_page From: Martin Schwidefsky Reply-To: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com In-Reply-To: <20061011145643.GA5259@wotan.suse.de> References: <20061007105758.14024.70048.sendpatchset@linux.site> <20061007105824.14024.85405.sendpatchset@linux.site> <20061007134345.0fa1d250.akpm@osdl.org> <452856E4.60705@yahoo.com.au> <1160578104.634.2.camel@localhost> <20061011145643.GA5259@wotan.suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:07:16 +0200 Message-Id: <1160579236.634.12.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , Linux Memory Management , Linux Kernel List-ID: On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 16:56 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > > With Nicks patch I can use arch_alloc_page instead of page_set_stable, > > but I can still not use arch_free_page instead of page_set_unused > > because it is done before the check for reserved pages. If reserved > > pages go away or the arch_free_page call would get moved after the check > > I could replace page_set_unused as well. So with Nicks patch we are only > > halfway there.. > > Ahh, but with my patchSET I think we are all the way there ;) Oh, good. Then I only have to add two more state change functions, namely page_make_stable and page_make_volatile. -- blue skies, Martin. Martin Schwidefsky Linux for zSeries Development & Services IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org