Re: [PATCH] s390/uv: Rework page allocation for guest variable storage area

[Alexander Gordeev]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 04:43:07PM +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:

Hi Heiko,
...
> +	for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
> +		pages[i] = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | __GFP_ZERO);
> +		if (!pages[i])
> +			goto free_pages;
> +	}
...
> +	for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
> +		if (pages[i])
> +			__free_page(pages[i]);
> +	}

Why not alloc_pages_bulk()/free_pages_bulk()?