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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1106221345001.11593@swampdragon.chaosbits.net>
Date:	Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:47:16 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
cc:	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Update reference to memory allocators in CodingStyle to
 include vzalloc()

The list of available general purpose memory allocators in
Documentation/CodingStyle chapter 14 is incomplete. This patch adds
the missing vzalloc() to the list.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
---
 Documentation/CodingStyle |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle
index 58b0bf9..fa6e25b 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingStyle
+++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle
@@ -680,8 +680,8 @@ ones already enabled by DEBUG.
 		Chapter 14: Allocating memory
 
 The kernel provides the following general purpose memory allocators:
-kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kcalloc(), and vmalloc().  Please refer to the API
-documentation for further information about them.
+kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kcalloc(), vmalloc(), and vzalloc().  Please refer to
+the API documentation for further information about them.
 
 The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following:
 
-- 
1.7.5.2

-- 
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