Hi,

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:

Paul Mackerras [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

A cluster of 2^n contiguous pages
 isn't one page by any normal definition.

It is, actually, from the POV of the page allocator.  It's a "higher order
page" and is controlled by a struct page*, just like a zero-order page...

OTOH we also have alloc_page/alloc_pages.

bye, Roman
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