On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Mel Gorman wrote:

> It has been asserted that the name get_huge_pages() implies the API is
> a close-to-kernel interface for allocating hugepages and nothing else.
> In 2.1-preX, this definition does not fit as it allows fallback to base pages
> for example.  This patch enforces the meaning implied by the function name by
> removing the ability of the function to fallback to base pages and redefines
> GHP_DEFAULT to mean "Use the default hugepage size to back the region".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Acked-by: Adam Litke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Acked-by: Eric B Munson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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