On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:15:02PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:

alloc_pages_exact() returns a virtual address.  But, alloc_pages() returns
a 'struct page *'.  That makes for very confused kernel hackers.

__get_free_pages(), on the other hand, returns virtual addresses.  That
makes alloc_pages_exact() a much closer match to __get_free_pages(), so
rename it to get_free_pages_exact().

Note that alloc_pages_exact()'s partner, free_pages_exact() already
matches free_pages(), so we do not have to touch the free side of things.

Yes, that was wrong from the start. Thanks for fixing.

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <redacted>

-Andi

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