Re: [patch 2] Xen core patch : arch_free_page return value

[Dave Hansen]

On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 15:48, Ian Pratt wrote:
> This patch adds a return value to the existing arch_free_page function
> that indicates whether the normal free routine still has work to
> do. The only architecture that currently uses arch_free_page is arch
> 'um'. arch-xen needs this for 'foreign pages' - pages that don't
> belong to the page allocator but are instead managed by custom
> allocators.

But, you're modifying page allocator functions to do this.  Why would
you call __free_pages_ok() on a page that didn't belong to the page
allocator?

-- Dave

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