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>
Subject: [PATCH v2 5/6] mm/mempolicy: Rewrite alloc_pages documentation
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2021 21:02:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210215210203.3827513-6-willy@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210215210203.3827513-1-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>
---
mm/mempolicy.c | 21 ++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index c71532b7e3f8..96c98ce16727 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: NULL when no page can be allocated.
*/
struct page *alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp, unsigned order)
{
--
2.29.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-15 21:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-15 21:01 [PATCH v2 0/6] Rationalise __alloc_pages wrappers Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-02-15 21:01 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] mm/page_alloc: Rename alloc_mask to alloc_gfp Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-02-15 21:01 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] mm/page_alloc: Rename gfp_mask to gfp Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-02-15 21:02 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] mm/page_alloc: Combine __alloc_pages and __alloc_pages_nodemask Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-02-15 21:02 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] mm/mempolicy: Rename alloc_pages_current to alloc_pages Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-02-15 21:02 ` Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) [this message]
2021-02-15 21:47 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] mm/mempolicy: Rewrite alloc_pages documentation Mike Rapoport
2021-02-15 22:32 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-02-16 5:37 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-02-16 8:22 ` Michal Hocko
2021-02-15 21:02 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] mm/mempolicy: Fix mpol_misplaced kernel-doc Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-02-15 21:51 ` Mike Rapoport
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