[parisc-linux] struct page: page in use or not ?

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 12:23:08PM +0100, bruno_vidal@hp.com wrote:
>     Hi
> What do you mean by "swsusp" patche ? What it do....
> Actually I'm looking at the kmalloc() function in order to
> understand how it determine the bucket, and so to know
> which pages I need to dump before I can use the page structure.
> Do you think it is a good starting point, or using page
> struture is really a bad option ?

kmalloc (ie slab) is the wrong allocator to be looking at.  you want
get_free_pages.

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