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| author | Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> | 2025-05-16 17:34:46 -0700 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2025-05-22 14:55:37 -0700 |
| commit | 2aad4edf6e1018b28b7000faec56b7b6e585c8e1 (patch) | |
| tree | 1e3552563bc56fc061b6d53db3192cbe2a08bba3 /include | |
| parent | 5fc4b770fc35c05874dd2dd5bf1f03d354025b62 (diff) | |
mm: rename try_alloc_pages() to alloc_pages_nolock()
The "try_" prefix is confusing, since it made people believe that
try_alloc_pages() is analogous to spin_trylock() and NULL return means
EAGAIN. This is not the case. If it returns NULL there is no reason to
call it again. It will most likely return NULL again. Hence rename it to
alloc_pages_nolock() to make it symmetrical to free_pages_nolock() and
document that NULL means ENOMEM.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250517003446.60260-1-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/gfp.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h index c9fa6309c903..be160e8d8bcb 100644 --- a/include/linux/gfp.h +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h @@ -45,13 +45,13 @@ static inline bool gfpflags_allow_spinning(const gfp_t gfp_flags) * !__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM -> direct claim is not allowed. * !__GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM -> it's not safe to wake up kswapd. * All GFP_* flags including GFP_NOWAIT use one or both flags. - * try_alloc_pages() is the only API that doesn't specify either flag. + * alloc_pages_nolock() is the only API that doesn't specify either flag. * * This is stronger than GFP_NOWAIT or GFP_ATOMIC because * those are guaranteed to never block on a sleeping lock. * Here we are enforcing that the allocation doesn't ever spin * on any locks (i.e. only trylocks). There is no high level - * GFP_$FOO flag for this use in try_alloc_pages() as the + * GFP_$FOO flag for this use in alloc_pages_nolock() as the * regular page allocator doesn't fully support this * allocation mode. */ @@ -354,8 +354,8 @@ static inline struct page *alloc_page_vma_noprof(gfp_t gfp, } #define alloc_page_vma(...) alloc_hooks(alloc_page_vma_noprof(__VA_ARGS__)) -struct page *try_alloc_pages_noprof(int nid, unsigned int order); -#define try_alloc_pages(...) alloc_hooks(try_alloc_pages_noprof(__VA_ARGS__)) +struct page *alloc_pages_nolock_noprof(int nid, unsigned int order); +#define alloc_pages_nolock(...) alloc_hooks(alloc_pages_nolock_noprof(__VA_ARGS__)) extern unsigned long get_free_pages_noprof(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order); #define __get_free_pages(...) alloc_hooks(get_free_pages_noprof(__VA_ARGS__)) |