On 2/25/21 4:06 PM, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote: > Document alloc_pages() for both NUMA and non-NUMA cases as kernel-doc > doesn't care. > > Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> > --- > mm/mempolicy.c | 21 ++++++++++----------- > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c > index c71532b7e3f8..24c2100fccba 100644 > --- a/mm/mempolicy.c > +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c > @@ -2245,19 +2245,18 @@ alloc_pages_vma(gfp_t gfp, int order, struct vm_area_struct *vma, > EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_pages_vma); > > /** > - * alloc_pages - Allocate pages. > + * alloc_pages - Allocate pages. > + * @gfp: GFP flags. > + * @order: Power of two of number of pages to allocate. > * > - * @gfp: > - * %GFP_USER user allocation, > - * %GFP_KERNEL kernel allocation, > - * %GFP_HIGHMEM highmem allocation, > - * %GFP_FS don't call back into a file system. > - * %GFP_ATOMIC don't sleep. > - * @order: Power of two of allocation size in pages. 0 is a single page. > + * Allocate 1 << @order contiguous pages. The physical address of the > + * first page is naturally aligned (eg an order-3 allocation will be aligned > + * to a multiple of 8 * PAGE_SIZE bytes). The NUMA policy of the current > + * process is honoured when in process context. > * > - * Allocate a page from the kernel page pool. When not in > - * interrupt context and apply the current process NUMA policy. > - * Returns NULL when no page can be allocated. > + * Context: Can be called from any context, providing the appropriate GFP > + * flags are used. > + * Return: The page on success or NULL if allocation fails. > */ > struct page *alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp, unsigned order) > { >