[PATCH v2 3/3] Documentation: deprecated.rst: type-aware kmalloc-family: mark optional argument as such
Manuel Ebner <[email protected]>
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put the optional argument (gfp) in square brackets eg. ptr = kmalloc_obj(*ptr, gfp); -> ptr = kmalloc_obj(*ptr, [gfp]); Signed-off-by: Manuel Ebner <[email protected]> --- Documentation/process/deprecated.rst | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst b/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst index fed56864d036..b431993fd08e 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst @@ -392,12 +392,12 @@ allocations. For example, these open coded assignments:: become, respectively:: - ptr = kmalloc_obj(*ptr, gfp); - ptr = kzalloc_obj(*ptr, gfp); - ptr = kmalloc_objs(*ptr, count, gfp); - ptr = kzalloc_objs(*ptr, count, gfp); - ptr = kmalloc_flex(*ptr, flex_member, count, gfp); - __auto_type ptr = kmalloc_obj(struct foo, gfp); + ptr = kmalloc_obj(*ptr, [gfp]); + ptr = kzalloc_obj(*ptr, [gfp]); + ptr = kmalloc_objs(*ptr, count, [gfp]); + ptr = kzalloc_objs(*ptr, count, [gfp]); + ptr = kmalloc_flex(*ptr, flex_member, count, [gfp]); + __auto_type ptr = kmalloc_obj(struct foo, [gfp]); If `ptr->flex_member` is annotated with __counted_by(), the allocation will automatically fail if `count` is larger than the maximum -- 2.53.0