[PATCH v3 0/3] Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family

Manuel Ebner
2026-04-24T17:49:00Z

Update the documentation to reflect new type-aware kmalloc-family as
suggested in commit 2932ba8d9c99 ("slab: Introduce kmalloc_obj()
and family")

On Tue, 2026-04-21 at 19:55 +0200, Manuel Ebner wrote:
> I have also thought about adding a few cases to checkpatch.pl, but this
> will take me more time, and i want to get this series finished.
I can't do it, i don't have the knowledge in Perl and Regex.

[v2] -> [v3]:
remove obvious wrong replacements in [1/3]
add Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney in [2/3]
change how to mark the optional argument in [3/3]
add recipants
--cc="linux-mm@kvack.org"
--to="Kees Cook"
--cc="Geert Uytterhoeven"

[v1] -> [v2]:
put RCU/* in a seperate patch [Patch 2/3]
Omit optional argument (GFP_KERNEL) as suggested by https://lwn.net/Articles/1062856/
deprecated.rst: change the argument gfp to optional [Patch 3/3]