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From: "KOSAKI Motohiro" <m-kosaki@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
To: "Christoph Lameter" <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/4] cpu alloc: The allocator
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> +/*
> + * Allocate an object of a certain size
> + *
> + * Returns a special pointer that can be used with CPU_PTR to find the
> + * address of the object for a certain cpu.
> + */
> +void *cpu_alloc(unsigned long size, gfp_t gfpflags, unsigned long align)

cpu_alloc is good name?
I think some person suspect cpu-hotplug related function.

per_cpu_alloc() or cpu_mem_alloc() are wrong?