Re: Pagecache: find_or_create_page does not call a proper page allocator function

[Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > +static inline struct page *page_cache_alloc_mask(struct address_space *x,
> > +			gfp_t gfp)
> > +{
> > +	return __page_cache_alloc(mapping_gfp_mask(x) | gfp);
> > +}
> 
> Usually we use the term "mask" to imply an AND function, not an OR
> function.

Well but you pass an allocation mask.... Maybe call this 
page_cache_alloc_gfp?

> There are few calls to page_cache_alloc().  Would it not be simpler to just
> add the additional argument to page_cache_alloc() (called "extra_gfp",
> please) and to update all callers?  And to remove page_cache_alloc_cold()
> and replace all it callers with page_cache_alloc(mapping, __GFP_COLD)?
> 
> The way we actually get rid of an API call instead of adding another one.

Ok. Give me an hour or so.