Re: Deleting an element from a free_list?

[frankeh@us.ibm.com]

NO, it will NOT prevent the kernel of allocating these blocks. They have to
be properly marked in the
bitmaps of the buddy algorithm...
You basically have to do what alloc_pages() does !!
If you know the addresses upfront at boottime ... you might screw around
with the reserve_bootmem or the
BIOS E820 bootmem map.....  (assuming you are sitting on an x86 box).

-- Hubertus

Timur Tabi <ttabi@interactivesi.com>@kvack.org on 06/27/2000 02:46:43 PM

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Subject:  Deleting an element from a free_list?



free_area[x].free_list.next points to the head of a linked list of free
blocks
of order x (2^x contiguous pages).  If I simply remove one element from one
of
these linked lists, using function list_del() in list.h, does that
effectively
remove that block from the free list and hence prevent the kernel from
allocating those blocks of memory to anyone else?  This is assuming that I
never
ever plan to "unallocate" those blocks of memory.  Will I need to also
update
the corresponding mem_map_t structures by doing something like setting the
usage
count to 1 or setting some bits in the flags field?



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