On Thu, 11 Apr 2013, Simon Jeons wrote: > It seems that I need to simple my question. > All pages which order >=1 are compound pages?
In the slub allocator that is true. One can request and free a series of contiguous pages that are not compound pages from the page allocator and a couple of subsystems use those. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/