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See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Subject: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 01/10] mm: update the documentation for vfree X-BeenThere: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Intel graphics driver community testing & development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Juergen Gross , Stefano Stabellini , Matthew Wilcox , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Peter Zijlstra , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, x86@kernel.org, Chris Wilson , Minchan Kim , Matthew Auld , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, Boris Ostrovsky , Nitin Gupta Errors-To: intel-gfx-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org Sender: "Intel-gfx" From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" * 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: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig --- mm/vmalloc.c | 21 +++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c index be4724b916b3e7..8770260419af06 100644 --- a/mm/vmalloc.c +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -2321,20 +2321,21 @@ static void __vfree(const void *addr) } /** - * vfree - release memory allocated by vmalloc() - * @addr: memory base address + * vfree - Release memory allocated by vmalloc() + * @addr: Memory base address * - * Free the virtually continuous memory area starting at @addr, as - * obtained from vmalloc(), vmalloc_32() or __vmalloc(). If @addr is - * NULL, no operation is performed. + * Free the virtually continuous memory area starting at @addr, as obtained + * from one of the vmalloc() family of APIs. This will usually also free the + * physical memory underlying the virtual allocation, but that memory is + * reference counted, so it will not be freed until the last user goes away. * - * Must not be called in NMI context (strictly speaking, only if we don't - * have CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG, but making the calling - * conventions for vfree() arch-depenedent would be a really bad idea) + * If @addr is NULL, no operation is performed. * + * Context: * May sleep if called *not* from interrupt context. - * - * NOTE: assumes that the object at @addr has a size >= sizeof(llist_node) + * Must not be called in NMI context (strictly speaking, it could be + * if we have CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG, but making the calling + * conventions for vfree() arch-depenedent would be a really bad idea). */ void vfree(const void *addr) {