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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index ed82ee55e66a..4074c07d02ca 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -4977,13 +4977,18 @@ static inline bool prepare_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, * @nr_pages: The number of pages desired in the array * @page_array: Array to store the pages * - * This is a batched version of the page allocator that attempts to - * allocate nr_pages quickly. Pages are added to the page_array. + * This is a batched version of the page allocator that attempts to allocate + * @nr_pages quickly. Pages are added to @page_array. * - * Note that only NULL elements are populated with pages and nr_pages - * is the maximum number of pages that will be stored in the array. + * Note that only the elements in @page_array that were cleared to %NULL on + * entry are populated with newly allocated pages. @nr_pages is the maximum + * number of pages that will be stored in the array. * - * Returns the number of pages in the array. + * Returns the number of pages in @page_array, including ones already + * allocated on entry. This can be less than the number requested in @nr_pages, + * but all empty slots are filled from the beginning. I.e., if all slots in + * @page_array were set to %NULL on entry, the slots from 0 to the return value + * - 1 will be filled. */ unsigned long alloc_pages_bulk_noprof(gfp_t gfp, int preferred_nid, nodemask_t *nodemask, int nr_pages, |