Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family

Jonathan Corbet
2026-05-03T15:51:23Z

Manuel Ebner <manuelebner@mailbox.org> writes:

> On Sun, 2026-05-03 at 08:56 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> Manuel Ebner <manuelebner@mailbox.org> writes:
>>
>> > Update the documentation to reflect new type-aware kmalloc-family as
>> > suggested in commit 2932ba8d9c99 ("slab: Introduce kmalloc_obj()
>> > and family")
>>
>> OK, I have applied this series.  While doing so, I restored the "gfp"
>> parameter in the changelog portion where it had been mistakenly removed.
>
> That's good, thanks.
> I had two more changes lined up for v5 of this series:
>
> - ptr = kmalloc(sizeof(struct foo, gfp);
> + ptr = kmalloc(sizeof(struct foo), gfp);
>
> and
>
> -The argument gfp is optional, the default value is GFP_KERNEL.
> +The argument `gfp` is optional, the default value is `GFP_KERNEL`.
>
> I don't know how to go forward with this.
> please advice

Make a new patch on top of docs-next with the additional changes you
want to do.

Thanks,

jon