Re: [PATCH] Document kfree and vfree NULL usage (resend)

[Parag Warudkar <kernel-stuff@comcast.net>]

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On Sunday 05 December 2004 03:21 pm, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 17:59 +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> > And you are right: for vfree, it's "must not be called". I'll send a 
> > separate patch. Or Andrew could just change it directly.
> 
> Please do it for vunmap() also.
> 
> 			Pekka
> 
> 
Ok. Patch for vfree and vunmap below. Please discard previous patch for kfree().

Parag

Signed-off-by: Parag Warudkar <kernel-stuff@comcast.net>

--- linux-mod/mm/vmalloc.c.orig 2004-12-05 12:40:50.699631616 -0500
+++ linux-mod/mm/vmalloc.c      2004-12-05 15:33:26.344334328 -0500
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ void __vunmap(void *addr, int deallocate
  *     Free the virtually contiguous memory area starting at @addr, as
  *     obtained from vmalloc(), vmalloc_32() or __vmalloc().
  *
- *     May not be called in interrupt context.
+ *     Must not be called in interrupt context.
  */
 void vfree(void *addr)
 {
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ 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)
 {

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