The patch titled
Subject: mm/util: add kernel-doc for kvfree
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-util-add-kernel-doc-for-kvfree.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-util-add-kernel-doc-for-kvfree.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-util-add-kernel-doc-for-kvfree.patch
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From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/util: add kernel-doc for kvfree
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1532626360-16650-3-git-send-email-rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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diff -puN mm/util.c~mm-util-add-kernel-doc-for-kvfree mm/util.c
--- a/mm/util.c~mm-util-add-kernel-doc-for-kvfree
+++ a/mm/util.c
@@ -434,6 +434,13 @@ void *kvmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t f
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kvmalloc_node);
+/**
+ * kvfree - free memory allocated with kvmalloc
+ * @addr: pointer returned by kvmalloc
+ *
+ * If the memory is allocated from vmalloc area it is freed with vfree().
+ * Otherwise kfree() is used.
+ */
void kvfree(const void *addr)
{
if (is_vmalloc_addr(addr))
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-make-deferred_struct_page_init-explicitly-depend-on-sparsemem.patch
mm-memblock-replace-u64-with-phys_addr_t-where-appropriate.patch
mm-mempool-add-missing-parameter-description.patch
mm-util-make-strndup_user-description-a-kernel-doc-comment.patch
mm-util-add-kernel-doc-for-kvfree.patch
docs-core-api-kill-trailing-whitespace-in-kernel-apirst.patch
docs-core-api-move-strmemdup-to-string-manipulation.patch
docs-core-api-split-memory-management-api-to-a-separate-file.patch
docs-mm-make-gfp-flags-descriptions-usable-as-kernel-doc.patch
docs-core-api-mm-api-add-section-about-gfp-flags.patch
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