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Kirill Smelkov
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Jonathan Corbet
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Merge branch 'kmalloc' into docs-next
jc: fixed conflict with willy's memory-allocation tag patch.
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@@ -486,48 +486,47 @@ static __always_inline void *kmalloc_large(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
* kmalloc is the normal method of allocating memory
* for objects smaller than page size in the kernel.
*
* The @flags argument may be one of:
* The @flags argument may be one of the GFP flags defined at
* include/linux/gfp.h and described at
* :ref:`Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst <mm-api-gfp-flags>`
*
* %GFP_USER - Allocate memory on behalf of user. May sleep.
* The recommended usage of the @flags is described at
* :ref:`Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst <memory-allocation>`
*
*
%GFP_KERNEL - Allocate normal kernel ram. May sleep.
*
Below is a brief outline of the most useful GFP flags
*
* %GFP_
ATOMIC - Allocation will not sleep. May use emergency pools.
*
For example, use this inside interrupt handlers
.
* %GFP_
KERNEL
*
Allocate normal kernel ram. May sleep
.
*
* %GFP_HIGHUSER - Allocate pages from high memory.
* %GFP_NOWAIT
* Allocation will not sleep.
*
* %GFP_NOIO - Do not do any I/O at all while trying to get memory.
* %GFP_ATOMIC
* Allocation will not sleep. May use emergency pools.
*
* %GFP_NOFS - Do not make any fs calls while trying to get memory.
*
* %GFP_NOWAIT - Allocation will not sleep.
*
* %__GFP_THISNODE - Allocate node-local memory only.
*
* %GFP_DMA - Allocation suitable for DMA.
* Should only be used for kmalloc() caches. Otherwise, use a
* slab created with SLAB_DMA.
* %GFP_HIGHUSER
* Allocate memory from high memory on behalf of user.
*
* Also it is possible to set different flags by OR'ing
* in one or more of the following additional @flags:
*
* %__GFP_HIGH - This allocation has high priority and may use emergency pools.
* %__GFP_HIGH
* This allocation has high priority and may use emergency pools.
*
* %__GFP_NOFAIL - Indicate that this allocation is in no way allowed to fail
* %__GFP_NOFAIL
* Indicate that this allocation is in no way allowed to fail
* (think twice before using).
*
* %__GFP_NORETRY - If memory is not immediately available,
* %__GFP_NORETRY
* If memory is not immediately available,
* then give up at once.
*
* %__GFP_NOWARN - If allocation fails, don't issue any warnings.
* %__GFP_NOWARN
* If allocation fails, don't issue any warnings.
*
* %__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL - Try really hard to succeed the allocation but fail
* %__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL
* Try really hard to succeed the allocation but fail
* eventually.
*
* There are other flags available as well, but these are not intended
* for general use, and so are not documented here. For a full list of
* potential flags, always refer to linux/gfp.h.
*/
static
__always_inline
void
*
kmalloc
(
size_t
size
,
gfp_t
flags
)
{
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