108 files changed, 10620 insertions, 699 deletions

diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
index 9b0d0267a3c3..2909c33bc54e 100644
--- a/.mailmap
+++ b/.mailmap
@@ -113,3 +113,5 @@ Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>
 Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
 Takashi YOSHII <takashi.yoshii.zj@renesas.com>
 Yusuke Goda <goda.yusuke@renesas.com>
+Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@las.ic.unicamp.br>
+Gustavo Padovan <padovan@profusion.mobi>
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle
index c58b236bbe04..cb9258b8fd35 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingStyle
+++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle
@@ -671,8 +671,9 @@ ones already enabled by DEBUG.
                 Chapter 14: Allocating memory
 
 The kernel provides the following general purpose memory allocators:
-kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kcalloc(), vmalloc(), and vzalloc().  Please refer to
-the API documentation for further information about them.
+kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kmalloc_array(), 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:
 
@@ -686,6 +687,17 @@ Casting the return value which is a void pointer is redundant. The conversion
 from void pointer to any other pointer type is guaranteed by the C programming
 language.
 
+The preferred form for allocating an array is the following:
+
+        p = kmalloc_array(n, sizeof(...), ...);
+