Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
>
> On Thursday, 18. April 2002 04:26, Mel wrote:
> > This patch is a first cut effort at commenting how the buddy algorithm
> > works for allocating and freeing blocks of pages. No code is changed so
> > the impact is minimal to put it mildly
>
> Sure?
>
> > - index = page_idx >> (1 + order);
It's OK:
- index = page_idx >> (1 + order);
+ /* index is the number bit inside the free_area_t bitmap stored in
+ * area->map
+ */
+ index = page_idx >> (1 + order);
> Nevertheless, great attempt, Mel.
yes, it is.
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