From: Pekka Enberg Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 20:10:16 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] update kfree, vfree, and vunmap kerneldoc X-Git-Tag: v2.6.14-rc1~294 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=80e93effce55044c5a7fa96e8b313640a80bd4e9;p=linux-2.6 [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 Acked-by: Manfred Spraul Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c index a041c5378d..05a391059f 100644 --- a/mm/slab.c +++ b/mm/slab.c @@ -2998,6 +2998,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kzalloc); * kfree - free previously allocated memory * @objp: pointer returned by kmalloc. * + * If @objp is NULL, no operation is performed. + * * Don't free memory not originally allocated by kmalloc() * or you will run into trouble. */ diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c index 67b358e57e..13c3d82968 100644 --- a/mm/vmalloc.c +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -332,9 +332,10 @@ void __vunmap(void *addr, int deallocate_pages) * @addr: memory base address * * Free the virtually contiguous memory area starting at @addr, as - * obtained from vmalloc(), vmalloc_32() or __vmalloc(). + * obtained from vmalloc(), vmalloc_32() or __vmalloc(). If @addr is + * NULL, no operation is performed. * - * May not be called in interrupt context. + * Must not be called in interrupt context. */ void vfree(void *addr) { @@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfree); * Free the virtually contiguous memory area starting at @addr, * which was created from the page array passed to vmap(). * - * May not be called in interrupt context. + * Must not be called in interrupt context. */ void vunmap(void *addr) {