From f1db88d2a7f1c92284e64f5dbb5c7a316a22576d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Frysinger Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 08:46:35 +0000 Subject: Blackfin: document the lsl variants of the L1 allocator Make sure the meaning of "lsl" is covered somewhere and it is clear why we somewhat duplicate the sram alloc/free functions. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger --- arch/blackfin/mm/sram-alloc.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/blackfin/mm') diff --git a/arch/blackfin/mm/sram-alloc.c b/arch/blackfin/mm/sram-alloc.c index fa54a4ee3d6c..0bc3c4ef0aad 100644 --- a/arch/blackfin/mm/sram-alloc.c +++ b/arch/blackfin/mm/sram-alloc.c @@ -743,6 +743,10 @@ found: } EXPORT_SYMBOL(sram_free_with_lsl); +/* Allocate memory and keep in L1 SRAM List (lsl) so that the resources are + * tracked. These are designed for userspace so that when a process exits, + * we can safely reap their resources. + */ void *sram_alloc_with_lsl(size_t size, unsigned long flags) { void *addr = NULL; -- cgit v1.2.2