Re: [PATCH 2/3] make new alloc_pages_exact()

[Michal Nazarewicz]

> Dave Hansen <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > +void __free_pages_exact(struct page *page, size_t nr_pages)
> > +{
> > +	struct page *end = page + nr_pages;
> > +
> > +	while (page < end) {
> > +		__free_page(page);
> > +		page++;
> > +	}
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__free_pages_exact);

On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:22:23 +0200, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Really, this function duplicates release_pages().

It requires an array of pointers to pages which is not great though if one
just wants to free a contiguous sequence of pages.

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