[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: Paul Drynoff <pauldrynoff@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 664c3a10..98ac20b 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -3277,26 +3277,10 @@
#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)
