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| author | Anshuman Khandual | 2022-01-14 14:07:33 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2022-01-15 16:30:29 +0200 |
| commit | eaab8e753632b8e961701d02a5bb398c820f309c (patch) | |
| tree | af5536c24b28841dda602f36efcbc212f6100a74 /mm/page_alloc.c | |
| parent | 04a536bfbd0f885338eecc2a4503dfca50ac94dd (diff) | |
mm/page_alloc.c: modify the comment section for alloc_contig_pages()
Clarify that the alloc_contig_pages() allocated range will always be
aligned to the requested nr_pages.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1639545478-12160-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index c4ef450ac442..3eace0065ecc 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -9272,8 +9272,8 @@ static bool zone_spans_last_pfn(const struct zone *zone, * for allocation requests which can not be fulfilled with the buddy allocator. * * The allocated memory is always aligned to a page boundary. If nr_pages is a - * power of two then the alignment is guaranteed to be to the given nr_pages - * (e.g. 1GB request would be aligned to 1GB). + * power of two, then allocated range is also guaranteed to be aligned to same + * nr_pages (e.g. 1GB request would be aligned to 1GB). * * Allocated pages can be freed with free_contig_range() or by manually calling * __free_page() on each allocated page. |