mm, page_alloc: split alloc_pages_nodemask()
alloc_pages_nodemask does a number of preperation steps that determine what zones can be used for the allocation depending on a variety of factors. This is fine but a hypothetical caller that wanted multiple order-0 pages has to do the preparation steps multiple times. This patch structures __alloc_pages_nodemask such that it's relatively easy to build a bulk order-0 page allocator. There is no functional change. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170123153906.3122-3-mgorman@techsingularity.netSigned-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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