Re: "struct page" and allocating high memory

[Rene Herman <rene.herman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 27-04-08 18:44, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>   so what does that comment mean?  it seems to be exactly backwards
> from what i'm used to believing.

The comment seems confused yes. alloc_pages() is just the buddy allocator 
and gets you contiguous pages. For vmalloc() purposes, an array of struct 
page * is allocated, allocating one page at a time with alloc_page() (in 
__vmalloc_area_node).

Rene.

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