linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] mm/nommu: remove description of alloc_vm

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Date:   Sun, 25 Feb 2018 20:59:49 +0200
From:   Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        linux-doc <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] mm/nommu: remove description of alloc_vm_area

The alloc_mm_area in nommu is a stub, but it's description states it
allocates kernel address space.
Remove the description to make the code and the documentation agree.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 mm/nommu.c | 12 ------------
 1 file changed, 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index ebb6e618dade..4f1cabd07e81 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -457,18 +457,6 @@ void __weak vmalloc_sync_all(void)
 {
 }
 
-/**
- *	alloc_vm_area - allocate a range of kernel address space
- *	@size:		size of the area
- *
- *	Returns:	NULL on failure, vm_struct on success
- *
- *	This function reserves a range of kernel address space, and
- *	allocates pagetables to map that range.  No actual mappings
- *	are created.  If the kernel address space is not shared
- *	between processes, it syncs the pagetable across all
- *	processes.
- */
 struct vm_struct *alloc_vm_area(size_t size, pte_t **ptes)
 {
 	BUG();
-- 
2.7.4