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| author | Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> | 2024-07-15 10:44:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> | 2024-07-15 10:44:16 +0200 |
| commit | 436381eaf2a423e60fc8340399f7d2458091b383 (patch) | |
| tree | 16ecce9d2dcb5ed43de60a966e9026c9ffd6e711 /Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst | |
| parent | a52c6330ff2fe1163333fa6609bdc6e8763ec286 (diff) | |
| parent | d73778e4b86755d527a0c6b249cde846770b2f66 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'slab/for-6.11/buckets' into slab/for-next
Merge all the slab patches previously collected on top of v6.10-rc1,
over cleanups/fixes that had to be based on rc6.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst b/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst index 1c58d883b273..8b84eb4bdae7 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst @@ -144,8 +144,10 @@ configuration, but it is a good practice to use `kmalloc` for objects smaller than page size. The address of a chunk allocated with `kmalloc` is aligned to at least -ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN bytes. For sizes which are a power of two, the -alignment is also guaranteed to be at least the respective size. +ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN bytes. For sizes which are a power of two, the +alignment is also guaranteed to be at least the respective size. For other +sizes, the alignment is guaranteed to be at least the largest power-of-two +divisor of the size. Chunks allocated with kmalloc() can be resized with krealloc(). Similarly to kmalloc_array(): a helper for resizing arrays is provided in the form of |