Dave Hansen wrote: > > What I really wanted in the end was a highmem-capable > alloc_pages_exact(), so here it is. This function can be used to > allocate unmapped (like highmem) non-power-of-two-sized areas of > memory. This is in constast to get_free_pages_exact() which can only > allocate from lowmem. Is there an easy way to verify that alloc_pages_exact(5MB) really does allocate only 5MB and not 8MB? Is there some kind of function that returns the amount of unallocated memory, so I can do a diff? -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>