> I always like to point people to the implementation of the buddy
> system memory allocator in mm/page_alloc.c that uses this (together with
> the atomic testing of the old value - when you understand what that code
> does, you understand the kernel).
from mm/page_alloc.c:
/*
* Buddy system. Hairy. You really aren't expected to understand this
*
...
--> You aren't expected to understand the kernel ;)
Kai
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