Commit 3870a237 authored by Jonathan Corbet's avatar Jonathan Corbet

Merge branch 'kmalloc' into docs-next

jc: fixed conflict with willy's memory-allocation tag patch.
parents acf0f57a 01598ba6
...@@ -486,48 +486,47 @@ static __always_inline void *kmalloc_large(size_t size, gfp_t flags) ...@@ -486,48 +486,47 @@ static __always_inline void *kmalloc_large(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
* kmalloc is the normal method of allocating memory * kmalloc is the normal method of allocating memory
* for objects smaller than page size in the kernel. * for objects smaller than page size in the kernel.
* *
* The @flags argument may be one of: * The @flags argument may be one of the GFP flags defined at
* include/linux/gfp.h and described at
* :ref:`Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst <mm-api-gfp-flags>`
* *
* %GFP_USER - Allocate memory on behalf of user. May sleep. * The recommended usage of the @flags is described at
* :ref:`Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst <memory-allocation>`
* *
* %GFP_KERNEL - Allocate normal kernel ram. May sleep. * Below is a brief outline of the most useful GFP flags
* *
* %GFP_ATOMIC - Allocation will not sleep. May use emergency pools. * %GFP_KERNEL
* For example, use this inside interrupt handlers. * Allocate normal kernel ram. May sleep.
* *
* %GFP_HIGHUSER - Allocate pages from high memory. * %GFP_NOWAIT
* Allocation will not sleep.
* *
* %GFP_NOIO - Do not do any I/O at all while trying to get memory. * %GFP_ATOMIC
* Allocation will not sleep. May use emergency pools.
* *
* %GFP_NOFS - Do not make any fs calls while trying to get memory. * %GFP_HIGHUSER
* * Allocate memory from high memory on behalf of user.
* %GFP_NOWAIT - Allocation will not sleep.
*
* %__GFP_THISNODE - Allocate node-local memory only.
*
* %GFP_DMA - Allocation suitable for DMA.
* Should only be used for kmalloc() caches. Otherwise, use a
* slab created with SLAB_DMA.
* *
* Also it is possible to set different flags by OR'ing * Also it is possible to set different flags by OR'ing
* in one or more of the following additional @flags: * in one or more of the following additional @flags:
* *
* %__GFP_HIGH - This allocation has high priority and may use emergency pools. * %__GFP_HIGH
* * This allocation has high priority and may use emergency pools.
* %__GFP_NOFAIL - Indicate that this allocation is in no way allowed to fail
* (think twice before using).
* *
* %__GFP_NORETRY - If memory is not immediately available, * %__GFP_NOFAIL
* then give up at once. * Indicate that this allocation is in no way allowed to fail
* (think twice before using).
* *
* %__GFP_NOWARN - If allocation fails, don't issue any warnings. * %__GFP_NORETRY
* If memory is not immediately available,
* then give up at once.
* *
* %__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL - Try really hard to succeed the allocation but fail * %__GFP_NOWARN
* eventually. * If allocation fails, don't issue any warnings.
* *
* There are other flags available as well, but these are not intended * %__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL
* for general use, and so are not documented here. For a full list of * Try really hard to succeed the allocation but fail
* potential flags, always refer to linux/gfp.h. * eventually.
*/ */
static __always_inline void *kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags) static __always_inline void *kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
{ {
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