Commit 800590f5 authored by Paul Drynoff's avatar Paul Drynoff Committed by Linus Torvalds

[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: default avatarPaul Drynoff <pauldrynoff@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 5a4d4361
...@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ X!Ilib/string.c ...@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ X!Ilib/string.c
<chapter id="mm"> <chapter id="mm">
<title>Memory Management in Linux</title> <title>Memory Management in Linux</title>
<sect1><title>The Slab Cache</title> <sect1><title>The Slab Cache</title>
!Iinclude/linux/slab.h
!Emm/slab.c !Emm/slab.c
</sect1> </sect1>
<sect1><title>User Space Memory Access</title> <sect1><title>User Space Memory Access</title>
......
...@@ -86,6 +86,51 @@ extern void *__kmalloc_track_caller(size_t, gfp_t, void*); ...@@ -86,6 +86,51 @@ extern void *__kmalloc_track_caller(size_t, gfp_t, void*);
__kmalloc_track_caller(size, flags, __builtin_return_address(0)) __kmalloc_track_caller(size, flags, __builtin_return_address(0))
#endif #endif
/**
* kmalloc - allocate memory
* @size: how many bytes of memory are required.
* @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
*
* 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.
* For example, use this inside interrupt handlers.
*
* %GFP_HIGHUSER - Allocate pages from high memory.
*
* %GFP_NOIO - Do not do any I/O at all while trying to get memory.
*
* %GFP_NOFS - Do not make any fs calls while trying to get memory.
*
* Also it is possible to set different flags by OR'ing
* in one or more of the following additional @flags:
*
* %__GFP_COLD - Request cache-cold pages instead of
* trying to return cache-warm pages.
*
* %__GFP_DMA - Request memory from the DMA-capable zone.
*
* %__GFP_HIGH - This allocation has high priority and may use emergency pools.
*
* %__GFP_HIGHMEM - Allocated memory may be from highmem.
*
* %__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,
* then give up at once.
*
* %__GFP_NOWARN - If allocation fails, don't issue any warnings.
*
* %__GFP_REPEAT - If allocation fails initially, try once more before failing.
*/
static inline void *kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags) static inline void *kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
{ {
if (__builtin_constant_p(size)) { if (__builtin_constant_p(size)) {
...@@ -111,6 +156,11 @@ static inline void *kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags) ...@@ -111,6 +156,11 @@ static inline void *kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
extern void *__kzalloc(size_t, gfp_t); extern void *__kzalloc(size_t, gfp_t);
/**
* kzalloc - allocate memory. The memory is set to zero.
* @size: how many bytes of memory are required.
* @flags: the type of memory to allocate (see kmalloc).
*/
static inline void *kzalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags) static inline void *kzalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
{ {
if (__builtin_constant_p(size)) { if (__builtin_constant_p(size)) {
......
...@@ -3277,26 +3277,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmalloc_node); ...@@ -3277,26 +3277,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmalloc_node);
#endif #endif
/** /**
* kmalloc - allocate memory * __do_kmalloc - allocate memory
* @size: how many bytes of memory are required. * @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 * @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, static __always_inline void *__do_kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags,
void *caller) void *caller)
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