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).
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