Re: [PATCH] kmalloc man page before 2.6.17

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

Currently kernel-doc doesn't produce the man page for "kmalloc",
I think that is a big lack of documentation. This patch should help.
Now
scripts/kernel-doc -man -function kmalloc include/linux/slab.h  |
nroff -man | less
creates suitable "man page".

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
@@ -3244,26 +3244,10 @@ 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.
+ * @flags: the type of memory to allocate(see kmalloc).
  * @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,
 					  void *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)) {