Hi, As Vlastimil mentioned at [1], it would be nice to have some guide about memory allocation. This set adds such guide that summarizes the "best practices". The changes from the RFC include additions and corrections from Michal and Randy. I've also added markup to cross-reference the kernel-doc documentation. I've split the patch into three to separate labels addition to the exiting files from the new contents. v3 -> v4: * make GFP_*USER* description less confusing v2 -> v3: * s/HW/hardware [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/netfilter-devel/msg55542.html Mike Rapoport (3): docs: core-api/gfp_mask-from-fs-io: add a label for cross-referencing docs: core-api/mm-api: add a lable for GFP flags section docs: core-api: add memory allocation guide Documentation/core-api/gfp_mask-from-fs-io.rst | 2 + Documentation/core-api/index.rst | 1 + Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst | 122 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst | 2 + 4 files changed, 127 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst -- 2.7.4
