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Patch series "mm: alloc_pages_bulk: small API refactor", v2. Today, alloc_pages_bulk_noprof() supports two arguments to return allocated pages: a linked list and an array. There are also higher level APIs for both. However, the linked list API has apparently never been used. So, this series removes it along with the list API and also refactors the remaining API naming for consistency. This patch (of 2): commit387ba26fb1("mm/page_alloc: add a bulk page allocator") added __alloc_pages_bulk() along with the page_list argument. The next commit0f87d9d30f("mm/page_alloc: add an array-based interface to the bulk page allocator") added the array-based argument. As it turns out, the page_list argument has no users in the current tree (if it ever had any). Dropping it allows for a slight simplification and eliminates some unnecessary checks, now that page_array is required. Also, note that the removal of the page_list argument was proposed before in the thread below, where Matthew Wilcox mentions that: """ Iterating a linked list is _expensive_. It is about 10x quicker to iterate an array than a linked list. """ (https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20231025093254.xvomlctwhcuerzky@techsingularity.net) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1734991165.git.luizcap@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f1c75db91d08cafd211eca6a3b199b629d4ffe16.1734991165.git.luizcap@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <luizcap@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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