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author | Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> | 2013-12-19 09:18:53 -0600 |
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committer | Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> | 2013-12-19 09:18:53 -0600 |
commit | c139e1425ff7bec7ac22ed90acbadb1b7aa091a9 (patch) | |
tree | c6b091d2dfce26ce80238ef278f2bc7b3b473cad /include/linux/slab.h | |
parent | 4a5ee77caad2a99b86d6bdd5f0064a60224a0760 (diff) | |
parent | 319e2e3f63c348a9b66db4667efa73178e18b17d (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'v3.13-rc4' into next
Linux 3.13-rc4
* tag 'v3.13-rc4': (1001 commits)
Linux 3.13-rc4
null_blk: mem garbage on NUMA systems during init
radeon_pm: fix oops in hwmon_attributes_visible() and radeon_hwmon_show_temp_thresh()
Revert "selinux: consider filesystem subtype in policies"
igb: Fix for issue where values could be too high for udelay function.
i40e: fix null dereference
ARM: fix asm/memory.h build error
dm array: fix a reference counting bug in shadow_ablock
dm space map: disallow decrementing a reference count below zero
mm: memcg: do not allow task about to OOM kill to bypass the limit
mm: memcg: fix race condition between memcg teardown and swapin
thp: move preallocated PTE page table on move_huge_pmd()
mfd/rtc: s5m: fix register updating by adding regmap for RTC
rtc: s5m: enable IRQ wake during suspend
rtc: s5m: limit endless loop waiting for register update
rtc: s5m: fix unsuccesful IRQ request during probe
drivers/rtc/rtc-s5m.c: fix info->rtc assignment
include/linux/kernel.h: make might_fault() a nop for !MMU
drivers/rtc/rtc-at91rm9200.c: correct alarm over day/month wrap
procfs: also fix proc_reg_get_unmapped_area() for !MMU case
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Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/slab.h')
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1 files changed, 46 insertions, 56 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h index c2bba24..1e2f4fe 100644 --- a/include/linux/slab.h +++ b/include/linux/slab.h @@ -388,10 +388,55 @@ static __always_inline void *kmalloc_large(size_t size, gfp_t flags) /** * kmalloc - allocate memory * @size: how many bytes of memory are required. - * @flags: the type of memory to allocate (see kcalloc). + * @flags: the type of memory to allocate. * * kmalloc is the normal method of allocating memory * for objects smaller than page size 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. May use emergency pools. + * For example, use this inside interrupt handlers. + * + * %GFP_HIGHUSER - Allocate pages from high memory. + * + * %GFP_NOIO - Do not do any I/O at all while trying to get memory. + * + * %GFP_NOFS - Do not make any fs calls while trying to get memory. + * + * %GFP_NOWAIT - Allocation will not sleep. + * + * %GFP_THISNODE - Allocate node-local memory only. + * + * %GFP_DMA - Allocation suitable for DMA. + * Should only be used for kmalloc() caches. Otherwise, use a + * slab created with SLAB_DMA. + * + * Also it is possible to set different flags by OR'ing + * in one or more of the following additional @flags: + * + * %__GFP_COLD - Request cache-cold pages instead of + * trying to return cache-warm pages. + * + * %__GFP_HIGH - This allocation has high priority and may use emergency pools. + * + * %__GFP_NOFAIL - Indicate that this allocation is in no way allowed to fail + * (think twice before using). + * + * %__GFP_NORETRY - If memory is not immediately available, + * then give up at once. + * + * %__GFP_NOWARN - If allocation fails, don't issue any warnings. + * + * %__GFP_REPEAT - If allocation fails initially, try once more before failing. + * + * There are other flags available as well, but these are not intended + * for general use, and so are not documented here. For a full list of + * potential flags, always refer to linux/gfp.h. */ static __always_inline void *kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags) { @@ -502,61 +547,6 @@ int cache_show(struct kmem_cache *s, struct seq_file *m); void print_slabinfo_header(struct seq_file *m); /** - * kmalloc - allocate memory - * @size: how many bytes of memory are required. - * @flags: the type of memory to allocate. - * - * 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. May use emergency pools. - * For example, use this inside interrupt handlers. - * - * %GFP_HIGHUSER - Allocate pages from high memory. - * - * %GFP_NOIO - Do not do any I/O at all while trying to get memory. - * - * %GFP_NOFS - Do not make any fs calls while trying to get memory. - * - * %GFP_NOWAIT - Allocation will not sleep. - * - * %GFP_THISNODE - Allocate node-local memory only. - * - * %GFP_DMA - Allocation suitable for DMA. - * Should only be used for kmalloc() caches. Otherwise, use a - * slab created with SLAB_DMA. - * - * Also it is possible to set different flags by OR'ing - * in one or more of the following additional @flags: - * - * %__GFP_COLD - Request cache-cold pages instead of - * trying to return cache-warm pages. - * - * %__GFP_HIGH - This allocation has high priority and may use emergency pools. - * - * %__GFP_NOFAIL - Indicate that this allocation is in no way allowed to fail - * (think twice before using). - * - * %__GFP_NORETRY - If memory is not immediately available, - * then give up at once. - * - * %__GFP_NOWARN - If allocation fails, don't issue any warnings. - * - * %__GFP_REPEAT - If allocation fails initially, try once more before failing. - * - * There are other flags available as well, but these are not intended - * for general use, and so are not documented here. For a full list of - * potential flags, always refer to linux/gfp.h. - * - * kmalloc is the normal method of allocating memory - * in the kernel. - */ -static __always_inline void *kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags); - -/** * kmalloc_array - allocate memory for an array. * @n: number of elements. * @size: element size. |