linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm/vmalloc.c: Use "high-order" in description non 0-order pages

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Message-Id: <20240906095049.3486-1-urezki@gmail.com>
Date: Fri,  6 Sep 2024 11:50:49 +0200
From: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@...il.com>
To: linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
	Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>,
	Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@...y.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mm/vmalloc.c: Use "high-order" in description non 0-order pages

In many places, in the comments, we use both "higher-order" and
"high-order" to describe the non 0-order pages. That is confusing,
because a "higher-order" statement does not reflect what it is
compared with.

Suggested-by: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@...il.com>
---
 mm/vmalloc.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 37b6e987234e..c7bd8740b8a2 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -3590,7 +3590,7 @@ vm_area_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp, int nid,
 			break;
 
 		/*
-		 * Higher order allocations must be able to be treated as
+		 * High-order allocations must be able to be treated as
 		 * independent small pages by callers (as they can with
 		 * small-page vmallocs). Some drivers do their own refcounting
 		 * on vmalloc_to_page() pages, some use page->mapping,
@@ -3653,7 +3653,7 @@ static void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct vm_struct *area, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 	page_order = vm_area_page_order(area);
 
 	/*
-	 * Higher order nofail allocations are really expensive and
+	 * High-order nofail allocations are really expensive and
 	 * potentially dangerous (pre-mature OOM, disruptive reclaim
 	 * and compaction etc.
 	 *
-- 
2.39.2