[PATCH v3 14/16] mm: Move __alloc_pages() to mm/page_alloc.h
From: Brendan Jackman
Date: Mon Jun 29 2026 - 09:52:15 EST
It's no longer used outside of mm/.
Since this means __alloc_pages_noprof() is no longer visible from gfp.h,
this also means moving the definition of alloc_pages_node_noprof into
the .c file.
Also remove references to this API from the documentation tree -
referring to the specific function name was already questionable but
now the function is not even public it definitely seems wrong.
Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst | 2 +-
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst | 2 +-
include/linux/gfp.h | 16 +---------------
mm/page_alloc.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
mm/page_alloc.h | 4 ++++
5 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst
index c7909e5ac1361..52a213aff04e5 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ take action.
==>
Unless this feature is enabled by writing "1" to the special file
/dev/cpuset/memory_pressure_enabled, the hook in the rebalance
- code of __alloc_pages() for this metric reduces to simply noticing
+ code of the page allocator for this metric reduces to simply noticing
that the cpuset_memory_pressure_enabled flag is zero. So only
systems that enable this feature will compute the metric.
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
index 23f8d13c2629d..16f37135ed80d 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
@@ -761,7 +761,7 @@ compact_fail
but failed.
It is possible to establish how long the stalls were using the function
-tracer to record how long was spent in __alloc_pages() and
+tracer to record how long was spent in the page allocator and
using the mm_page_alloc tracepoint to identify which allocations were
for huge pages.
diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index 3bf55a5f9143e..4d57e9c0bf204 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -204,10 +204,6 @@ static inline void arch_free_page(struct page *page, int order) { }
static inline void arch_alloc_page(struct page *page, int order) { }
#endif
-struct page *__alloc_pages_noprof(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int order, int preferred_nid,
- nodemask_t *nodemask);
-#define __alloc_pages(...) alloc_hooks(__alloc_pages_noprof(__VA_ARGS__))
-
struct folio *__folio_alloc_noprof(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int order, int preferred_nid,
nodemask_t *nodemask);
#define __folio_alloc(...) alloc_hooks(__folio_alloc_noprof(__VA_ARGS__))
@@ -272,17 +268,7 @@ struct folio *__folio_alloc_node_noprof(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int order, int nid)
* prefer the current CPU's closest node. Otherwise node must be valid and
* online.
*/
-static inline struct page *alloc_pages_node_noprof(int nid, gfp_t gfp_mask,
- unsigned int order)
-{
- if (nid == NUMA_NO_NODE)
- nid = numa_mem_id();
-
- VM_BUG_ON(nid < 0 || nid >= MAX_NUMNODES);
- warn_if_node_offline(nid, gfp_mask);
-
- return __alloc_pages_noprof(gfp_mask, order, nid, NULL);
-}
+struct page *alloc_pages_node_noprof(int nid, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order);
#define alloc_pages_node(...) alloc_hooks(alloc_pages_node_noprof(__VA_ARGS__))
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 9cb3f1665b41b..026f33f217036 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5427,7 +5427,18 @@ struct page *__alloc_pages_noprof(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int order,
set_page_refcounted(page);
return page;
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(__alloc_pages_noprof);
+
+struct page *alloc_pages_node_noprof(int nid, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
+{
+ if (nid == NUMA_NO_NODE)
+ nid = numa_mem_id();
+
+ VM_BUG_ON(nid < 0 || nid >= MAX_NUMNODES);
+ warn_if_node_offline(nid, gfp_mask);
+
+ return __alloc_pages_noprof(gfp_mask, order, nid, NULL);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_pages_node_noprof);
struct folio *__folio_alloc_noprof(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int order, int preferred_nid,
nodemask_t *nodemask)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.h b/mm/page_alloc.h
index af83764788b96..2058cbdca56e7 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.h
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.h
@@ -244,6 +244,10 @@ struct page *alloc_frozen_pages_nolock_noprof(gfp_t gfp_flags, int nid, unsigned
alloc_hooks(alloc_frozen_pages_nolock_noprof(__VA_ARGS__))
void free_frozen_pages_nolock(struct page *page, unsigned int order);
+struct page *__alloc_pages_noprof(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int order, int preferred_nid,
+ nodemask_t *nodemask);
+#define __alloc_pages(...) alloc_hooks(__alloc_pages_noprof(__VA_ARGS__))
+
extern void zone_pcp_reset(struct zone *zone);
extern void zone_pcp_disable(struct zone *zone);
extern void zone_pcp_enable(struct zone *zone);
--
2.54.0