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author | Paul Drynoff <pauldrynoff@gmail.com> | 2006-06-23 09:03:48 (GMT) |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-06-23 14:42:52 (GMT) |
commit | 800590f523bf3bde9fa6c8e4d6763e4bf6a2c8ec (patch) | |
tree | 0afbccc4b3648633da42d2c4b79cdb8f756804fd /mm | |
parent | 5a4d43615921575b0c8299a5407ce4836e4138fd (diff) | |
download | linux-800590f523bf3bde9fa6c8e4d6763e4bf6a2c8ec.tar.xz |
[PATCH] slab: kmalloc, kzalloc comments cleanup and fix
- Move comments for kmalloc to right place, currently it near __do_kmalloc
- Comments for kzalloc
- More detailed comments for kmalloc
- Appearance of "kmalloc" and "kzalloc" man pages after "make mandocs"
[rdunlap@xenotime.net: simplification]
Signed-off-by: Paul Drynoff <pauldrynoff@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/slab.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 18 deletions
@@ -3277,26 +3277,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmalloc_node); #endif /** - * kmalloc - allocate memory + * __do_kmalloc - allocate memory * @size: how many bytes of memory are required. - * @flags: the type of memory to allocate. + * @flags: the type of memory to allocate (see kmalloc). * @caller: function caller for debug tracking of the caller - * - * kmalloc is the normal method of allocating memory - * in the kernel. - * - * The @flags argument may be one of: - * - * %GFP_USER - Allocate memory on behalf of user. May sleep. - * - * %GFP_KERNEL - Allocate normal kernel ram. May sleep. - * - * %GFP_ATOMIC - Allocation will not sleep. Use inside interrupt handlers. - * - * Additionally, the %GFP_DMA flag may be set to indicate the memory - * must be suitable for DMA. This can mean different things on different - * platforms. For example, on i386, it means that the memory must come - * from the first 16MB. */ static __always_inline void *__do_kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags, void *caller) |