[PATCH] stop using "base" argument in __free_pages_bulk()

This patch is somewhat of a companion to the "no buddy bitmap" patches. It messes with core allocator functions, so it probably deserves a long turn in -mm. Appended is a patch which stops using the zone->zone_mem_map to calculate the buddy and combined page pointers. It uses the fact that the

[PATCH] stop using base argument in __free_pages_bulk()

This patch is somewhat of a companion to the no buddy bitmap patches. It messes with core allocator functions, so it probably deserves a long turn in -mm. Appended is a patch which stops using the zone-zone_mem_map to calculate the buddy and combined page pointers. It uses the fact that the