[PATCH v2 3/3] Documentation: deprecated.rst: type-aware kmalloc-family: mark optional argument as such

Manuel Ebner <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:50:37 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-newbie,dev.linux.lists.linux-kernel-mentees,org.kernel.vger.kernel-janitors
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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
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