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Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 18:40:23 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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At some point in the past, I wrote:
>> I thought zholes stuff freed the struct pages. Maybe that was done
>> by hand.

On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 06:29:49PM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> The only place I see that used in generic code is
> calculate_zone_totalpages, free_area_init_core, free_area_init_node,
> none of which seem to do that. But cscope might be borked again, I
> guess. Must be done in each arch if at all ... which arch did you
> think did it?

Not sure, ISTR something about this going on but I don't see any extant
examples. At any rate, it should be easy to do it by hand, just make
sure there are struct pages tracking the holes in mem_map and free the
space in mem_map that would track the holes.


Bill
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