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Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > size chuncks.  Currently I am using kmalloc() to allocate a page at a
> > time.  I don't want to have to worry about mapping/unmapping etc.  I
> 
> Use get_free_page() to get page sized chunks

What about __get_free_page() ?  I don't need or want the clear page
(performance issues).

And then to return the page, free_page() ?

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