2011-06-22 11:56:09

by Jesper Juhl

Subject: [PATCH] Update reference to memory allocators in CodingStyle to include vzalloc()

The list of available general purpose memory allocators in
Documentation/CodingStyle chapter 14 is incomplete. This patch adds
the missing vzalloc() to the list.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[email protected]>
---
Documentation/CodingStyle | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle
index 58b0bf9..fa6e25b 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingStyle
+++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle
@@ -680,8 +680,8 @@ ones already enabled by DEBUG.
Chapter 14: Allocating memory

The kernel provides the following general purpose memory allocators:
-kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kcalloc(), and vmalloc(). Please refer to the API
-documentation for further information about them.
+kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kcalloc(), vmalloc(), and vzalloc(). Please refer to
+the API documentation for further information about them.

The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following:

--
1.7.5.2

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2011-06-22 17:13:58

by Randy Dunlap

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update reference to memory allocators in CodingStyle to include vzalloc()

On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:47:16 +0200 (CEST) Jesper Juhl wrote:

> The list of available general purpose memory allocators in
> Documentation/CodingStyle chapter 14 is incomplete. This patch adds
> the missing vzalloc() to the list.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[email protected]>

Applied, thanks Jesper.


> ---
> Documentation/CodingStyle | 4 ++--
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle
> index 58b0bf9..fa6e25b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/CodingStyle
> +++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle
> @@ -680,8 +680,8 @@ ones already enabled by DEBUG.
> Chapter 14: Allocating memory
>
> The kernel provides the following general purpose memory allocators:
> -kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kcalloc(), and vmalloc(). Please refer to the API
> -documentation for further information about them.
> +kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kcalloc(), vmalloc(), and vzalloc(). Please refer to
> +the API documentation for further information about them.
>
> The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following:
>
> --

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