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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst | 6 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst b/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst index 4446a1ac36cc..5954ddf6ee13 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst @@ -147,6 +147,10 @@ The address of a chunk allocated with `kmalloc` is aligned to at least ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN bytes. For sizes which are a power of two, the alignment is also guaranteed to be at least the respective size. +Chunks allocated with kmalloc() can be resized with krealloc(). Similarly +to kmalloc_array(): a helper for resizing arrays is provided in the form of +krealloc_array(). + For large allocations you can use vmalloc() and vzalloc(), or directly request pages from the page allocator. The memory allocated by `vmalloc` and related functions is not physically contiguous. diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst b/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst index 7ca8c7bac650..fcf605be43d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst @@ -221,12 +221,12 @@ Unit testing ============ This file:: - tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_benchmark.c + tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_test.c has the following new calls to exercise the new pin*() wrapper functions: -* PIN_FAST_BENCHMARK (./gup_benchmark -a) -* PIN_BENCHMARK (./gup_benchmark -b) +* PIN_FAST_BENCHMARK (./gup_test -a) +* PIN_BASIC_TEST (./gup_test -b) You can monitor how many total dma-pinned pages have been acquired and released since the system was booted, via two new /proc/vmstat entries: :: |