Re: [PATCH resend] mm/page_alloc: fix comment is __get_free_pages

From: Anshuman Khandual
Date: Mon Nov 27 2017 - 01:22:33 EST


On 11/25/2017 12:50 PM, JianKang Chen wrote:
> From: Jiankang Chen <chenjiankang1@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> __get_free_pages will return an 64bit address in 64bit System
> like arm64 or x86_64. And this comment really confuse new bigenner of
> mm.

Normally its not 64 bit virtual address though CPU architecture supports
64 bits. But yes, specifying it as general virtual address without number
of bits is better.