Re: [PATCH 1/2] rename alloc_pages_exact()

[Dave Hansen]

On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 14:40 -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> > alloc_pages_exact() returns a virtual address.  But, alloc_pages() returns
> > a 'struct page *'.  That makes for very confused kernel hackers.
> > 
> > __get_free_pages(), on the other hand, returns virtual addresses.  That
> > makes alloc_pages_exact() a much closer match to __get_free_pages(), so
> > rename it to get_free_pages_exact().
> > 
> 
> The patch also reverses the arguments of the function in 
> include/linux/gfp.h, undoubtedly to resemble the (mask, order) appearance 
> of __get_free_pages():
> 
> 	-void *alloc_pages_exact(size_t size, gfp_t gfp_mask);
> 	+void *get_free_pages_exact(gfp_t gfp_mask, size_t size);

Thanks.  I dumped the fixes for that in the second patch.  Whoops.  Will
repost.

-- Dave

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