Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750717AbWJHBj4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Oct 2006 21:39:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750728AbWJHBj4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Oct 2006 21:39:56 -0400 Received: from smtp104.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.214]:34944 "HELO smtp104.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750717AbWJHBjz (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Oct 2006 21:39:55 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=s0wLR5NDQzrrtCX/7x5r8Rriu3m3MiUIALwDIy1CDzg6AIpNovZkCyx/yfCVl/HaKoFf8gZXk5Q05FFs0CKHl6Hdvz/+RpWiIfr04L71J5fT9VP538JDsFEFDLnI8zpIi0xSdf+qzwzxILMtq9wIwtVm6MfcOtOn/FC7ecY79UQ= ; Message-ID: <452856E4.60705@yahoo.com.au> Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 11:39:48 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060216 Debian/1.7.12-1.1ubuntu2 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Nick Piggin , Linux Memory Management , Linux Kernel , Martin Schwidefsky Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] mm: add arch_alloc_page References: <20061007105758.14024.70048.sendpatchset@linux.site> <20061007105824.14024.85405.sendpatchset@linux.site> <20061007134345.0fa1d250.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20061007134345.0fa1d250.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 827 Lines: 27 Andrew Morton wrote: >On Sat, 7 Oct 2006 15:06:04 +0200 (CEST) >Nick Piggin wrote: > > >>Add an arch_alloc_page to match arch_free_page. >> > >umm.. why? > I had a future patch to more kernel_map_pages into it, but couldn't decide if that's a generic kernel feature that is only implemented in 2 architectures, or an architecture speicifc feature. So I left it out. But at least Martin wanted a hook here for his volatile pages patches, so I thought I'd submit this patch anyway. -- Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/