* [PATCH v2] Documentation: device-mapper: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family
@ 2026-06-29 15:35 Manuel Ebner
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From: Manuel Ebner @ 2026-06-29 15:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alasdair Kergon, Mike Snitzer, Mikulas Patocka,
Benjamin Marzinski, Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan,
open list:DEVICE-MAPPER (LVM), open list:DOCUMENTATION,
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Cc: Manuel Ebner
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>
---
[v2]
added '()' for automarkup
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..517b6d576826 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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