Alexei Starovoitov 2aad4edf6e mm: rename try_alloc_pages() to alloc_pages_nolock() ...

The "try_" prefix is confusing, since it made people believe that
try_alloc_pages() is analogous to spin_trylock() and NULL return means
EAGAIN.  This is not the case.  If it returns NULL there is no reason to
call it again.  It will most likely return NULL again.  Hence rename it to
alloc_pages_nolock() to make it symmetrical to free_pages_nolock() and
document that NULL means ENOMEM.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250517003446.60260-1-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

2025-05-22 14:55:37 -07:00

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