Re: Wiring down Pages

From: Robert Read (rread@datarithm.net)
Date: Thu Dec 21 2000 - 18:08:45 EST


On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 06:46:33PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> page_cache_drop(page); <= removes your extra count

I can't find that function, do you mean page_cache_free() and
page_cache_release(), both are aliases for __free_page(). Maybe we
need another alias. :)

Should non-page cache related code use get_page() and __free_page()
directly? Or should the page_cache_* macros be used everywhere?

robert
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