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Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.4] update ref counts on all allocated pages
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Matt Porter <porter@cox.net>
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On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 07:25, Matt Porter wrote:
> To clarify then, on an order>0 allocation, it is only valid/defined
> to free the same order of pages.  Is that a true statement?  If so,
> I'll submit a docs patch and adjust our our local implementation.

Yes, this is correct and it's what everyone does.  The exceptions
mess with the page counts themselves, look at the sparc64
pmd/pte dual-page allocations for example.

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