[PATCH v3 1/3] mm: rename alloc_pages_exact_node to __alloc_pages_node

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 30 Jul 2015, Vlastimil Babka wrote:

> --- a/mm/slob.c
> +++ b/mm/slob.c
>  	void *page;
>
> -#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> -	if (node != NUMA_NO_NODE)
> -		page = alloc_pages_exact_node(node, gfp, order);
> -	else
> -#endif
> -		page = alloc_pages(gfp, order);
> +	page = alloc_pages_node(node, gfp, order);

NAK. This is changing slob behavior. With no node specified it must use
alloc_pages because that obeys NUMA memory policies etc etc. It should not
force allocation from the current node like what is happening here after
the patch. See the code in slub.c that is similar.