From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>, SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [PATCH] docs/core-api: memory-allocation: clarify when to use kzalloc_obj and kzalloc
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2026 09:36:54 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260907063654.2248617-1-rppt@kernel.org> (raw)
From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
Make it abundantly clear that in the most cases objects should be
allocated with kzalloc_obj() and buffers should be allocated with
kzalloc().
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
---
This applies on top of "docs/core-api: memory-allocation: add
k[mz]alloc_obj() and clarify kmalloc" series
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260902-docs-memalloc-guide-v2-0-218c1a4dcb80@kernel.org
Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst b/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst
index 823f7fa57429b..648222b6c8576 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst
@@ -23,12 +23,14 @@ answer, although very likely you should use
kzalloc_obj(<VAR_OR_TYPE>);
-or
+if you need memory for an object and
::
kzalloc(<size>, GFP_KERNEL);
+if you need memory for a buffer.
+
Of course there are cases when other allocation APIs and different GFP
flags must be used.
base-commit: d7dd88ed029164fe0a959e126d0ce18dd3719f89
--
2.53.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-09-07 6:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-07 6:36 Mike Rapoport [this message]
2026-09-07 7:12 ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-09-07 7:27 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-07 10:40 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
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