From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail137.messagelabs.com (mail137.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1C216B005A for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:58:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <49ED5FC6.4010007@cs.helsinki.fi> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:55:18 +0300 From: Pekka Enberg MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/25] Replace __alloc_pages_internal() with __alloc_pages_nodemask() References: <1240266011-11140-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <1240266011-11140-2-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> In-Reply-To: <1240266011-11140-2-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Mel Gorman Cc: Linux Memory Management List , KOSAKI Motohiro , Christoph Lameter , Nick Piggin , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Lin Ming , Zhang Yanmin , Peter Zijlstra , Andrew Morton List-ID: 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 > Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org