Re: [PATCH 01/25] Replace __alloc_pages_internal() with __alloc_pages_nodemask()

[Pekka Enberg]

Mel Gorman wrote:
> __alloc_pages_internal is the core page allocator function but
> essentially it is an alias of __alloc_pages_nodemask. Naming a publicly
> available and exported function "internal" is also a big ugly. This
> patch renames __alloc_pages_internal() to __alloc_pages_nodemask() and
> deletes the old nodemask function.
>
> Warning - This patch renames an exported symbol. No kernel driver is
> affected by external drivers calling __alloc_pages_internal() should
> change the call to __alloc_pages_nodemask() without any alteration of
> parameters.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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