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From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 5/7] mm/mempolicy: Rewrite alloc_pages documentation
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:06:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210225150642.2582252-6-willy@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210225150642.2582252-1-willy@infradead.org>

Document alloc_pages() for both NUMA and non-NUMA cases as kernel-doc
doesn't care.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
---
 mm/mempolicy.c | 21 ++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index c71532b7e3f8..24c2100fccba 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2245,19 +2245,18 @@ alloc_pages_vma(gfp_t gfp, int order, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_pages_vma);
 
 /**
- * 	alloc_pages - Allocate pages.
+ * alloc_pages - Allocate pages.
+ * @gfp: GFP flags.
+ * @order: Power of two of number of pages to allocate.
  *
- *	@gfp:
- *		%GFP_USER   user allocation,
- *      	%GFP_KERNEL kernel allocation,
- *      	%GFP_HIGHMEM highmem allocation,
- *      	%GFP_FS     don't call back into a file system.
- *      	%GFP_ATOMIC don't sleep.
- *	@order: Power of two of allocation size in pages. 0 is a single page.
+ * Allocate 1 << @order contiguous pages.  The physical address of the
+ * first page is naturally aligned (eg an order-3 allocation will be aligned
+ * to a multiple of 8 * PAGE_SIZE bytes).  The NUMA policy of the current
+ * process is honoured when in process context.
  *
- *	Allocate a page from the kernel page pool.  When not in
- *	interrupt context and apply the current process NUMA policy.
- *	Returns NULL when no page can be allocated.
+ * Context: Can be called from any context, providing the appropriate GFP
+ * flags are used.
+ * Return: The page on success or NULL if allocation fails.
  */
 struct page *alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp, unsigned order)
 {
-- 
2.29.2



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-02-25 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-25 15:06 [PATCH v3 0/7] Rationalise __alloc_pages wrappers Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-02-25 15:06 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] mm/page_alloc: Rename alloc_mask to alloc_gfp Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-03-19 14:44   ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-02-25 15:06 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] mm/page_alloc: Rename gfp_mask to gfp Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-02-25 15:06 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] mm/page_alloc: Combine __alloc_pages and __alloc_pages_nodemask Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-02-25 15:06 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] mm/mempolicy: Rename alloc_pages_current to alloc_pages Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-02-25 15:06 ` Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) [this message]
2021-03-19 14:47   ` [PATCH v3 5/7] mm/mempolicy: Rewrite alloc_pages documentation Vlastimil Babka
2021-02-25 15:06 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] mm/mempolicy: Rewrite alloc_pages_vma documentation Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-02-25 18:42   ` Mike Rapoport
2021-03-19 14:48   ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-02-25 15:06 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] mm/mempolicy: Fix mpol_misplaced kernel-doc Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-03-19 14:49   ` Vlastimil Babka

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