linux-kernel - [PATCH 01/10] mm: update the documentation for vfree

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Message-Id: <20200930175133.1252382-2-hch@lst.de>
Date:   Wed, 30 Sep 2020 19:51:24 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>,
        Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
        Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>,
        Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@...el.com>,
        Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@...el.com>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>, x86@...nel.org,
        xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: [PATCH 01/10] mm: update the documentation for vfree

From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>

 * Document that you can call vfree() on an address returned from vmap()
 * Remove the note about the minimum size -- the minimum size of a vmalloc
   allocation is one page
 * Add a Context: section
 * Fix capitalisation
 * Reword the prohibition on calling from NMI context to avoid a double
   negative

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@...radead.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
---
 mm/vmalloc.c | 21 +++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index be4724b916b3e7..8770260419af06 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -2321,20 +2321,21 @@ static void __vfree(const void *addr)
 }
 
 /**
- * vfree - release memory allocated by vmalloc()
- * @addr:  memory base address
+ * vfree - Release memory allocated by vmalloc()
+ * @addr:  Memory base address
  *
- * Free the virtually continuous memory area starting at @addr, as
- * obtained from vmalloc(), vmalloc_32() or __vmalloc(). If @addr is
- * NULL, no operation is performed.
+ * Free the virtually continuous memory area starting at @addr, as obtained
+ * from one of the vmalloc() family of APIs.  This will usually also free the
+ * physical memory underlying the virtual allocation, but that memory is
+ * reference counted, so it will not be freed until the last user goes away.
  *
- * Must not be called in NMI context (strictly speaking, only if we don't
- * have CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG, but making the calling
- * conventions for vfree() arch-depenedent would be a really bad idea)
+ * If @addr is NULL, no operation is performed.
  *
+ * Context:
  * May sleep if called *not* from interrupt context.
- *
- * NOTE: assumes that the object at @addr has a size >= sizeof(llist_node)
+ * Must not be called in NMI context (strictly speaking, it could be
+ * if we have CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG, but making the calling
+ * conventions for vfree() arch-depenedent would be a really bad idea).
  */
 void vfree(const void *addr)
 {
-- 
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