linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] kfifo: Fix the description of kfifo

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Message-ID: <e25c871bd379f0f3595c2045925d3d25731bb194.1744923838.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:04:33 +0200
From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
To: Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] kfifo: Fix the description of kfifo_alloc()

The 'size' parameter of kfifo_alloc() does not need to be a power of 2. If
it is not, it will be rounded up to the next power of 2 automatically, as
already correctly explained a few lines below.

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
---
 include/linux/kfifo.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kfifo.h b/include/linux/kfifo.h
index fd743d4c4b4b..54fbe2ae6fbd 100644
--- a/include/linux/kfifo.h
+++ b/include/linux/kfifo.h
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ __kfifo_uint_must_check_helper( \
 /**
  * kfifo_alloc - dynamically allocates a new fifo buffer
  * @fifo: pointer to the fifo
- * @size: the number of elements in the fifo, this must be a power of 2
+ * @size: the number of elements in the fifo
  * @gfp_mask: get_free_pages mask, passed to kmalloc()
  *
  * This macro dynamically allocates a new fifo buffer.
-- 
2.49.0