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mm, page_alloc: split alloc_pages_nodemask()
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Fri, 24 Feb 2017 22:56:29 +0000 (14:56 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 25 Feb 2017 01:46:54 +0000 (17:46 -0800)
commitf5ecc2d9903c076a348f7e69414ecf9dac0f4556
treecd57343fa7266348c69070a21ccb0ad28f50c375
parent904411d1ffabc853880381b45233a4138d964776
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>
mm/page_alloc.c