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Message-Id: <3484e46180dd2cf05d993ff1a78b481bc2ad1f71.1687723931.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2023 22:12:24 +0200
From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
workflows@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] docs: deprecated.rst: Update an example
vmalloc() has a 2-factor form. It is vmalloc_array().
So use another function as an example.
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
---
Documentation/process/deprecated.rst | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst b/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst
index f91b8441f2ef..1f7f3e6c9cda 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ kzalloc() can be replaced with kcalloc().
If no 2-factor form is available, the saturate-on-overflow helpers should
be used::
- bar = vmalloc(array_size(count, size));
+ bar = dma_alloc_coherent(dev, array_size(count, size), &dma, GFP_KERNEL);
Another common case to avoid is calculating the size of a structure with
a trailing array of others structures, as in::
--
2.34.1
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