Appendix F. Physical Page Allocation

Contents

F.1 Allocating Pages	420
F.1.1 Function: `alloc_pages()`	420
F.1.2 Function: `_alloc_pages()`	420
F.1.3 Function: `__alloc_pages()`	421
F.1.4 Function: `rmqueue()`	425
F.1.5 Function: `expand()`	427
F.1.6 Function: `balance_classzone()`	428
F.2 Allocation Helper Functions	433
F.2.1 Function: `alloc_page()`	433
F.2.2 Function: `__get_free_page()`	433
F.2.3 Function: `__get_free_pages()`	433
F.2.4 Function: `__get_dma_pages()`	434
F.2.5 Function: `get_zeroed_page()`	434
F.3 Free Pages	435
F.3.1 Function: `__free_pages()`	435
F.3.2 Function: `__free_pages_ok()`	435
F.4 Free Helper Functions	440
F.4.1 Function: `free_pages()`	440
F.4.2 Function: `__free_page()`	440
F.4.3 Function: `free_page()`	440

Allocating Pages

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F.1 Allocating Pages	420
F.1.1 Function: `alloc_pages() ...`

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