mm: alloc_pages_bulk_noprof: drop page_list argument

Patch series "mm: alloc_pages_bulk: small API refactor", v2.

Today, alloc_pages_bulk_noprof() supports two arguments to return
allocated pages: a linked list and an array.  There are also higher level
APIs for both.

However, the linked list API has apparently never been used.  So, this
series removes it along with the list API and also refactors the remaining
API naming for consistency.


This patch (of 2):

commit 387ba26fb1cb ("mm/page_alloc: add a bulk page allocator") added
__alloc_pages_bulk() along with the page_list argument.  The next commit
0f87d9d30f21 ("mm/page_alloc: add an array-based interface to the bulk
page allocator") added the array-based argument.  As it turns out, the
page_list argument has no users in the current tree (if it ever had any). 
Dropping it allows for a slight simplification and eliminates some
unnecessary checks, now that page_array is required.

Also, note that the removal of the page_list argument was proposed before
in the thread below, where Matthew Wilcox mentions that:

  """
  Iterating a linked list is _expensive_.  It is about 10x quicker to
  iterate an array than a linked list.
  """
  (https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20231025093254.xvomlctwhcuerzky@techsingularity.net)

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1734991165.git.luizcap@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f1c75db91d08cafd211eca6a3b199b629d4ffe16.1734991165.git.luizcap@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <luizcap@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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