Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm, treewide: replace __folio_alloc_node() with folio_alloc_node()

"Brendan Jackman" <[email protected]> Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:00:38 +0000
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On Thu Jul 16, 2026 at 2:30 PM UTC, Brendan Jackman wrote:
> Commit 5b584d2d22dca ("mm: remove __alloc_pages_node()") removed the __

Oh, I just remembered this commit hash is unstable. In fact it's already
wrong.

> variant of alloc_pages_node(), after users had been migrated off it,
> since it just complicates the API (requiring users to handle
> NUMA_NO_NODE, or risking hotplug bugs) for no real benefit.