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Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/mempolicy.c | 34 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c index 24c2100fccba..6d0fe85d4f8d 100644 --- a/mm/mempolicy.c +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -2153,30 +2153,22 @@ static struct page *alloc_page_interleave(gfp_t gfp, unsigned order, } /** - * alloc_pages_vma - Allocate a page for a VMA. - * - * @gfp: - * %GFP_USER user allocation. - * %GFP_KERNEL kernel allocations, - * %GFP_HIGHMEM highmem/user allocations, - * %GFP_FS allocation should not call back into a file system. - * %GFP_ATOMIC don't sleep. + * alloc_pages_vma - Allocate a page for a VMA. + * @gfp: GFP flags. + * @order: Order of the GFP allocation. + * @vma: Pointer to VMA or NULL if not available. + * @addr: Virtual address of the allocation. Must be inside @vma. + * @node: Which node to prefer for allocation (modulo policy). + * @hugepage: For hugepages try only the preferred node if possible. * - * @order:Order of the GFP allocation. - * @vma: Pointer to VMA or NULL if not available. - * @addr: Virtual Address of the allocation. Must be inside the VMA. - * @node: Which node to prefer for allocation (modulo policy). - * @hugepage: for hugepages try only the preferred node if possible + * Allocate a page for a specific address in @vma, using the appropriate + * NUMA policy. When @vma is not NULL the caller must hold the mmap_lock + * of the mm_struct of the VMA to prevent it from going away. Should be + * used for all allocations for pages that will be mapped into user space. * - * This function allocates a page from the kernel page pool and applies - * a NUMA policy associated with the VMA or the current process. - * When VMA is not NULL caller must read-lock the mmap_lock of the - * mm_struct of the VMA to prevent it from going away. Should be used for - * all allocations for pages that will be mapped into user space. Returns - * NULL when no page can be allocated. + * Return: The page on success or NULL if allocation fails. */ -struct page * -alloc_pages_vma(gfp_t gfp, int order, struct vm_area_struct *vma, +struct page *alloc_pages_vma(gfp_t gfp, int order, struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, int node, bool hugepage) { struct mempolicy *pol; |