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| author | Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> | 2017-02-25 01:56:29 +0300 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-02-25 04:46:54 +0300 |
| commit | 9cd7555875bb09dad875e89a76f41f576e11c638 (patch) | |
| tree | cd57343fa7266348c69070a21ccb0ad28f50c375 /Documentation/video-output.txt | |
| parent | 066b23935578d3913c2df9bed7addbcdf4711f1a (diff) | |
| download | linux-9cd7555875bb09dad875e89a76f41f576e11c638.tar.xz | |
mm, page_alloc: split alloc_pages_nodemask()
alloc_pages_nodemask does a number of preperation steps that determine
what zones can be used for the allocation depending on a variety of
factors. This is fine but a hypothetical caller that wanted multiple
order-0 pages has to do the preparation steps multiple times. This
patch structures __alloc_pages_nodemask such that it's relatively easy
to build a bulk order-0 page allocator. There is no functional change.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170123153906.3122-3-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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