linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: alloc_pages

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Message-ID: <c35b14af-eeec-4d5f-8e2b-66d0b9b8cac8@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 14:26:27 +0100
From: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To: Luiz Capitulino <luizcap@...hat.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 mgorman@...hsingularity.net, willy@...radead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lcapitulino@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: alloc_pages_bulk: rename API

On 17.12.24 17:31, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> The previous commit removed the page_list argument from
> alloc_pages_bulk_noprof() along with the alloc_pages_bulk_list() function.
> 
> Now that only the *_array() flavour of the API remains, we can do the
> following renaming (along with the _noprof() ones):
> 
>    alloc_pages_bulk_array -> alloc_pages_bulk
>    alloc_pages_bulk_array_mempolicy -> alloc_pages_bulk_mempolicy
>    alloc_pages_bulk_array_node -> alloc_pages_bulk_node
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <luizcap@...hat.com>

Sounds reasonable to me

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>


Interestingly, drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/hmm/hmm_bo.c has a 
free_pages_bulk_array() function -- which we should definitively leave 
alone for now :)

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb