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authorPaul Drynoff <pauldrynoff@gmail.com>2006-06-23 02:03:48 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-06-23 07:42:52 -0700
commit800590f523bf3bde9fa6c8e4d6763e4bf6a2c8ec (patch)
tree0afbccc4b3648633da42d2c4b79cdb8f756804fd /mm
parent5a4d43615921575b0c8299a5407ce4836e4138fd (diff)
[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.c20
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 664c3a10acf..98ac20bc0de 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -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)