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diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index 6e479e9c48ce..220cd553a9e7 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -8,6 +8,20 @@
#include <linux/linkage.h>
#include <linux/topology.h>
+/* The typedef is in types.h but we want the documentation here */
+#if 0
+/**
+ * typedef gfp_t - Memory allocation flags.
+ *
+ * GFP flags are commonly used throughout Linux to indicate how memory
+ * should be allocated. The GFP acronym stands for get_free_pages(),
+ * the underlying memory allocation function. Not every GFP flag is
+ * supported by every function which may allocate memory. Most users
+ * will want to use a plain ``GFP_KERNEL``.
+ */
+typedef unsigned int __bitwise gfp_t;
+#endif
+
struct vm_area_struct;
/*
@@ -583,8 +597,16 @@ extern void free_pages(unsigned long addr, unsigned int order);
struct page_frag_cache;
extern void __page_frag_cache_drain(struct page *page, unsigned int count);
-extern void *page_frag_alloc(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
- unsigned int fragsz, gfp_t gfp_mask);
+extern void *page_frag_alloc_align(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
+ unsigned int fragsz, gfp_t gfp_mask,
+ unsigned int align_mask);
+
+static inline void *page_frag_alloc(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
+ unsigned int fragsz, gfp_t gfp_mask)
+{
+ return page_frag_alloc_align(nc, fragsz, gfp_mask, ~0u);
+}
+
extern void page_frag_free(void *addr);
#define __free_page(page) __free_pages((page), 0)