linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm/page_alloc: Add kernel-docs for free

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Message-ID: <aK4NUS5N9TiX5hk0@casper.infradead.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 20:38:57 +0100
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To: "Vishal Moola (Oracle)" <vishal.moola@...il.com>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm/page_alloc: Add kernel-docs for free_pages()

On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 12:32:52PM -0700, Vishal Moola (Oracle) wrote:
> +/**
> + * free_pages - Free pages allocated with alloc_pages().

I might reference get_free_pages() here instead of alloc_pages().
We used to have a wonderful document that explained that there was one
allocator with two namespaces to access it; alloc_pages()/__free_pages()
and get_free_pages()/free_pages().  I don't know what happened to it.

Other than that,

Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@...radead.org>