Commit bba757d8 authored by Joe Perches's avatar Joe Perches Committed by Jonathan Corbet

coding-style.rst: Generic alloc functions do not need OOM logging

Generic allocation functions already emit a dump_stack()
so additional error logging isn't useful.

Document it as such and add a reference to the allocation
API.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 0663a058
......@@ -843,7 +843,8 @@ used.
The kernel provides the following general purpose memory allocators:
kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kmalloc_array(), kcalloc(), vmalloc(), and
vzalloc(). Please refer to the API documentation for further information
about them.
about them. :ref:`Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst
<memory_allocation>`
The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following:
......@@ -874,6 +875,9 @@ The preferred form for allocating a zeroed array is the following:
Both forms check for overflow on the allocation size n * sizeof(...),
and return NULL if that occurred.
These generic allocation functions all emit a stack dump on failure when used
without __GFP_NOWARN so there is no use in emitting an additional failure
message when NULL is returned.
15) The inline disease
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