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authorPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>2005-09-09 16:10:16 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-09-09 17:03:43 -0400
commit80e93effce55044c5a7fa96e8b313640a80bd4e9 (patch)
tree339f0ac4c6d022ba048e109e51580c26ce4d252e /mm/slab.c
parentaf97c7220a0376beed827e72e3bb27731af7109d (diff)
[PATCH] update kfree, vfree, and vunmap kerneldoc
This patch clarifies NULL handling of kfree() and vfree(). I addition, wording of calling context restriction for vfree() and vunmap() are changed from "may not" to "must not." Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index a041c5378dfa..05a391059fe1 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -2998,6 +2998,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kzalloc);
2998 * kfree - free previously allocated memory 2998 * kfree - free previously allocated memory
2999 * @objp: pointer returned by kmalloc. 2999 * @objp: pointer returned by kmalloc.
3000 * 3000 *
3001 * If @objp is NULL, no operation is performed.
3002 *
3001 * Don't free memory not originally allocated by kmalloc() 3003 * Don't free memory not originally allocated by kmalloc()
3002 * or you will run into trouble. 3004 * or you will run into trouble.
3003 */ 3005 */