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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2010-09-10 05:01:56 -0400
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2010-09-10 05:01:56 -0400
commit9329ba9704f6bd51a735982e0d4a3eed72c3294f (patch)
tree8524ba7a84d5306d6fde91552655b10b0d06da61 /mm/percpu.c
parent677243d7494d09bfa782425f063a6013de53c35b (diff)
percpu: update comments to reflect that percpu allocations are always zero-filled
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/percpu.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/percpu.c11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/percpu.c b/mm/percpu.c
index 0cd4bf61012c..12dea33572bd 100644
--- a/mm/percpu.c
+++ b/mm/percpu.c
@@ -826,8 +826,8 @@ fail_unlock_mutex:
826 * @size: size of area to allocate in bytes 826 * @size: size of area to allocate in bytes
827 * @align: alignment of area (max PAGE_SIZE) 827 * @align: alignment of area (max PAGE_SIZE)
828 * 828 *
829 * Allocate percpu area of @size bytes aligned at @align. Might 829 * Allocate zero-filled percpu area of @size bytes aligned at @align.
830 * sleep. Might trigger writeouts. 830 * Might sleep. Might trigger writeouts.
831 * 831 *
832 * CONTEXT: 832 * CONTEXT:
833 * Does GFP_KERNEL allocation. 833 * Does GFP_KERNEL allocation.
@@ -846,9 +846,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__alloc_percpu);
846 * @size: size of area to allocate in bytes 846 * @size: size of area to allocate in bytes
847 * @align: alignment of area (max PAGE_SIZE) 847 * @align: alignment of area (max PAGE_SIZE)
848 * 848 *
849 * Allocate percpu area of @size bytes aligned at @align from reserved 849 * Allocate zero-filled percpu area of @size bytes aligned at @align
850 * percpu area if arch has set it up; otherwise, allocation is served 850 * from reserved percpu area if arch has set it up; otherwise,
851 * from the same dynamic area. Might sleep. Might trigger writeouts. 851 * allocation is served from the same dynamic area. Might sleep.
852 * Might trigger writeouts.
852 * 853 *
853 * CONTEXT: 854 * CONTEXT:
854 * Does GFP_KERNEL allocation. 855 * Does GFP_KERNEL allocation.