From: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
To: Manuel Ebner <manuelebner@mailbox.org>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, workflows@vger.kernel.org,
linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:53:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260430005333.113698-1-sj@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260429071445.309733-2-manuelebner@mailbox.org>
On Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:14:44 +0200 Manuel Ebner <manuelebner@mailbox.org> wrote:
> Update the documentation to reflect new type-aware kmalloc-family as
> suggested in commit 2932ba8d9c99 ("slab: Introduce kmalloc_obj()
> and family")
>
> ptr = kmalloc(sizeof(*ptr), gfp);
> -> ptr = kmalloc_obj(*ptr);
> ptr = kmalloc(sizeof(struct some_obj_name), gfp);
> -> ptr = kmalloc_obj(*ptr);
> ptr = kzalloc(sizeof(*ptr), gfp);
> -> ptr = kzalloc_obj(*ptr);
> ptr = kmalloc_array(count, sizeof(*ptr), gfp);
> -> ptr = kmalloc_objs(*ptr, count);
> ptr = kcalloc(count, sizeof(*ptr), gfp);
> -> ptr = kzalloc_objs(*ptr, count);
>
> Signed-off-by: Manuel Ebner <manuelebner@mailbox.org>
Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Thanks,
SJ
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-29 7:08 [PATCH v4 0/3] Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family Manuel Ebner
2026-04-29 7:14 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] " Manuel Ebner
2026-04-29 8:00 ` Vlastimil Babka
2026-04-30 0:53 ` SeongJae Park [this message]
2026-04-30 1:00 ` SeongJae Park
2026-05-01 9:12 ` Manuel Ebner
2026-04-29 7:27 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] Documentation: deprecated.rst: kmalloc-family: mark argument as optional Manuel Ebner
2026-04-29 8:01 ` Vlastimil Babka
2026-04-30 1:03 ` SeongJae Park
2026-05-01 9:19 ` Manuel Ebner
2026-05-03 14:56 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family Jonathan Corbet
2026-05-03 15:47 ` Manuel Ebner
2026-05-03 15:51 ` Jonathan Corbet
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