linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Update reference to memory allocators in CodingStyle to include vzalloc()

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Date:	Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:13:51 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
Cc:	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update reference to memory allocators in CodingStyle to
 include vzalloc()

On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:47:16 +0200 (CEST) Jesper Juhl wrote:

> 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>

Applied, thanks Jesper.


> ---
>  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:
>  
> -- 

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~Randy
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