From: Manuel Ebner <manuelebner@mailbox.org>
To: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>,
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>,
Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>,
Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
dm-devel@lists.linux.dev (open list:DEVICE-MAPPER (LVM)),
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org (open list:DOCUMENTATION),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
Cc: Manuel Ebner <manuelebner@mailbox.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: device-mapper: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2026 11:15:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260627091506.29534-2-manuelebner@mailbox.org> (raw)
Change the Documentation to reflect this commit 69050f8d6d07 ("treewide: Replace
kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types")
kmalloc -> kmalloc_objs
Signed-off-by: Manuel Ebner <manuelebner@mailbox.org>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/statistics.rst | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/statistics.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/statistics.rst
index 41ded0bc5933..2190b90118f8 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/statistics.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/statistics.rst
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ region, etc. Unique region_ids enable multiple userspace programs to
request and process statistics for the same DM device without stepping
on each other's data.
-The creation of DM statistics will allocate memory via kmalloc or
+The creation of DM statistics will allocate memory via kmalloc_objs or
fallback to using vmalloc space. At most, 1/4 of the overall system
memory may be allocated by DM statistics. The admin can see how much
memory is used by reading:
--
2.54.0
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2026-06-27 16:24 ` [PATCH] Documentation: device-mapper: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family Jonathan Corbet
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