From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 06:49:27 +0100 From: Nick Piggin Subject: Re: [rfc] split_page function to split higher order pages? Message-ID: <20060123054927.GA9960@wotan.suse.de> References: <20060121124053.GA911@wotan.suse.de> <1137853024.23974.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1137853024.23974.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Nick Piggin , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Memory Management List List-ID: On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 03:17:04PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 13:40 +0100, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Just wondering what people think of the idea of using a helper > > function to split higher order pages instead of doing it manually? > > Maybe it's worth documenting that this is for kernel (or even > architecture) internal use only and that drivers really shouldn't be > doing this.. I guess it doesn't seem like something drivers would need to use (and none appear to do anything like it). I'll add a note. -- 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