Since no one else seems to have complained about this...
On 5/28/06, Paul Drynoff <[email protected]> wrote:
+/**
+ * kmalloc - allocate memory
+ * @size: how many bytes of memory are required.
+ * @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
+ *
+ * kmalloc is the normal method of allocating memory
+ * in the kernel.
+ *
+ * The @flags argument may be one of:
+ *
+ * %GFP_USER - Allocate memory on behalf of user. May sleep.
+ *
+ * %GFP_KERNEL - Allocate normal kernel ram. May sleep.
+ *
+ * %GFP_ATOMIC - Allocation will not sleep.
+ * For example: use inside interrupt handlers.
+ * %GFP_HIGHUSER - Allocate pages from high memory.
+ * %GFP_NOIO - Do not do any I/O at all while trying to get memory.
+ * %GFP_NOFS - Do not make any fs calls while trying to get memory.
Why are the last four formatted differently from the first two? That
is, a newline seems to be missing.
+ *
+ *
+ * Also it is possible set different flags by OR'ing
+ * in one or more of the following:
+ * %__GFP_COLD
+ * - Request cache-cold pages instead of trying to return cache-warm pages.
+ * %__GFP_DMA
+ * - Request memory from the DMA-capable zone.
+ * %__GFP_HIGH
+ * - This allocation has high priority and may use emergency pools.
+ * %__GFP_HIGHMEM
+ * - Allocated memory may be from highmem.
+ * %__GFP_NOFAIL
+ * - Indicate that this allocation is in no way allowed to fail
+ * (think twice before using).
+ * %__GFP_NORETRY
+ * - If memory is not immediately available, then give up at once.
+ * %__GFP_NOWARN
+ * - If allocation fails, don't issue any warnings.
+ * %__GFP_REPEAT
+ * - If allocation fails initially, try once more before failing.
And why do these have completely different formatting? Please pick
one and use that consistently.
Pekka
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