From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] docs/core-api: memory-allocation: add mention of kmem_cache_create_userspace
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 13:47:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1547466454-29457-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
Mention that when a part of a slab cache might be exported to the
userspace, the cache should be created using kmem_cache_create_usercopy()
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
---
Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst b/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst
index 8954a88..51a200d 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst
@@ -113,9 +113,11 @@ see :c:func:`kvmalloc_node` reference documentation. Note that
If you need to allocate many identical objects you can use the slab
cache allocator. The cache should be set up with
-:c:func:`kmem_cache_create` before it can be used. Afterwards
-:c:func:`kmem_cache_alloc` and its convenience wrappers can allocate
-memory from that cache.
+:c:func:`kmem_cache_create` or :c:func:`kmem_cache_create_usercopy`
+before it can be used. The second function should be used if a part of
+the cache might be copied to the userspace. After the cache is
+created :c:func:`kmem_cache_alloc` and its convenience wrappers can
+allocate memory from that cache.
When the allocated memory is no longer needed it must be freed. You
can use :c:func:`kvfree` for the memory allocated with `kmalloc`,
--
2.7.4
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2019-01-15 0:27 ` [PATCH] docs/core-api: memory-allocation: add mention of kmem_cache_create_userspace Jonathan Corbet
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