From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: update CodingStyle memory allocators
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 11:27:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110706112717.cf70425e.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> (raw)
From: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
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 <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
---
Documentation/CodingStyle | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- lnx-30-rc4.orig/Documentation/CodingStyle
+++ lnx-30-rc4/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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