flex_array: flex_array_prealloc takes a number of elements, not an end

Change flex_array_prealloc to take the number of elements for which space
should be allocated instead of the last (inclusive) element. Users
and documentation are updated accordingly.  flex_arrays got introduced before
they had users.  When folks started using it, they ended up needing a
different API than was coded up originally.  This swaps over to the API that
folks apparently need.

Based-on-patch-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Chris Richards <gizmo@giz-works.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.38+]

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/flexible-arrays.txt b/Documentation/flexible-arrays.txt
index cb8a3a00cc92..df904aec9904 100644
--- a/Documentation/flexible-arrays.txt
+++ b/Documentation/flexible-arrays.txt
@@ -66,10 +66,10 @@ trick is to ensure that any needed memory allocations are done before
 entering atomic context, using:
 
     int flex_array_prealloc(struct flex_array *array, unsigned int start,
-                            unsigned int end, gfp_t flags);
+                            unsigned int nr_elements, gfp_t flags);
 
 This function will ensure that memory for the elements indexed in the range
-defined by start and end has been allocated.  Thereafter, a
+defined by start and nr_elements has been allocated.  Thereafter, a
 flex_array_put() call on an element in that range is guaranteed not to
 block.