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authorFelipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>2013-12-19 09:18:53 -0600
committerFelipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>2013-12-19 09:18:53 -0600
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parent319e2e3f63c348a9b66db4667efa73178e18b17d (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 ... Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/slab.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/slab.h102
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.
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