Re: [PATCH v3 08/16] perf/x86/intel: Use higher-level allocator API

["Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@kernel.org>]

On 6/29/26 15:11, Brendan Jackman wrote:
> The difference between __alloc_pages_node() and alloc_pages_node() is
> that the latter allows you to pass NUMA_NO_NODE.
> 
> The former is going away and the latter works fine here so switch over.
> 
> No functional change intended.
> 
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
> Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
> Assisted-by: Gemini:unknown-version
> Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>

Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>

> ---
>  arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c
> index 91a093d8cf2e7..70be80211d823 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c
> @@ -832,7 +832,7 @@ static void *dsalloc_pages(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int cpu)
>  	int node = cpu_to_node(cpu);
>  	struct page *page;
>  
> -	page = __alloc_pages_node(node, flags | __GFP_ZERO, order);
> +	page = alloc_pages_node(node, flags | __GFP_ZERO, order);
>  	return page ? page_address(page) : NULL;
>  }
>  
> @@ -1088,9 +1088,9 @@ void init_arch_pebs_on_cpu(int cpu)
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * 4KB-aligned pointer of the output buffer
> -	 * (__alloc_pages_node() return page aligned address)
> +	 * (alloc_pages_node() returns page aligned address)
>  	 * Buffer Size = 4KB * 2^SIZE
> -	 * contiguous physical buffer (__alloc_pages_node() with order)
> +	 * contiguous physical buffer (alloc_pages_node() with order)
>  	 */
>  	arch_pebs_base = virt_to_phys(cpuc->pebs_vaddr) | PEBS_BUFFER_SHIFT;
>  	wrmsrq_on_cpu(cpu, MSR_IA32_PEBS_BASE, arch_pebs_base);
>