Re: [PATCH] kmalloc man page before 2.6.17

["Paul Drynoff" <pauldrynoff@gmail.com>]

Actually, this is not full duplication:
__do_kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags,
                                          void *caller)
and
void *kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t gfp)

they have different amount of arguments and different arguments names.

But as I see include/linux/slab.h is better place. See patch.

It will be great to create another entry for flags of "kmalloc* family
functions,
so we can avoid duplication of this in __do_kmalloc and kmalloc
comments, but I don't know is it possible with scripts/kernel-doc.

Signed-off-by: Paul Drynoff <pauldrynoff@gmail.com>

---

Index: linux-2.6.17-rc4/mm/slab.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17-rc4.orig/mm/slab.c
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc4/mm/slab.c
@@ -3244,7 +3244,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmalloc_node);
 #endif

 /**
- * kmalloc - allocate memory
+ * __do_kmalloc - allocate memory
  * @size: how many bytes of memory are required.
  * @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
  * @caller: function caller for debug tracking of the caller
Index: linux-2.6.17-rc4/include/linux/slab.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17-rc4.orig/include/linux/slab.h
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc4/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -87,6 +87,27 @@ extern void *__kmalloc_track_caller(size
     __kmalloc_track_caller(size, flags, __builtin_return_address(0))
 #endif

+/**
+ * kmalloc - allocate memory
+ * @size: how many bytes of memory are required.
+ * @gfp: the type of memory to allocate.
+ *
+ * kmalloc is the normal method of allocating memory
+ * in the kernel.
+ *
+ * The @gfp 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 inline void *kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
 {
 	if (__builtin_constant_p(size)) {