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authorJesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>2011-07-06 22:27:17 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-07-07 00:17:51 +0400
commit316b3799880c55bb20f6d2db904245eccc30e25f (patch)
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Documentation: update CodingStyle memory allocators
The list of available general purpose memory allocators in Documentation/CodingStyle chapter 14 is incomplete. This patch adds the missing vzalloc() to the list. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Chapter 14: Allocating memory
The kernel provides the following general purpose memory allocators:
-kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kcalloc(), and vmalloc(). Please refer to the API
-documentation for further information about them.
+kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kcalloc(), vmalloc(), and vzalloc(). Please refer to
+the API documentation for further information about them.
The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following: