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    mm: update the documentation for vfree · fa307474
    Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) authored
    Patch series "remove alloc_vm_area", v4.
    
    This series removes alloc_vm_area, which was left over from the big
    vmalloc interface rework.  It is a rather arkane interface, basicaly the
    equivalent of get_vm_area + actually faulting in all PTEs in the allocated
    area.  It was originally addeds for Xen (which isn't modular to start
    with), and then grew users in zsmalloc and i915 which seems to mostly
    qualify as abuses of the interface, especially for i915 as a random driver
    should not set up PTE bits directly.
    
    This patch (of 11):
    
     * 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: default avatarMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
    Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
    Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
    Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
    Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
    Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
    Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
    Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
    Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201002122204.1534411-1-hch@lst.de
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201002122204.1534411-2-hch@lst.deSigned-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    fa307474
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