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authorHeinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>2020-02-16 18:13:40 +0100
committerArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>2020-02-23 21:57:15 +0100
commiteaa6fc67e11c13e00799af9ca70d9fa3725c85e7 (patch)
tree070c29de9b8c5f694596aa96d347957b08ea74ac /drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/mem.c
parent2931d526d5674940d916a4b513a681ee3562e574 (diff)
efi/libstub: Add function description of efi_allocate_pages()
Provide a Sphinx style function description for efi_allocate_pages(). Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200216171340.6070-1-xypron.glpk@gmx.de Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/mem.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/mem.c16
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/mem.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/mem.c
index 5808c8764e64..17060086913a 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/mem.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/mem.c
@@ -65,8 +65,20 @@ fail:
return status;
}
-/*
- * Allocate at the highest possible address that is not above 'max'.
+/**
+ * efi_allocate_pages() - Allocate memory pages
+ * @size: minimum number of bytes to allocate
+ * @addr: On return the address of the first allocated page. The first
+ * allocated page has alignment EFI_ALLOC_ALIGN which is an
+ * architecture dependent multiple of the page size.
+ * @max: the address that the last allocated memory page shall not
+ * exceed
+ *
+ * Allocate pages as EFI_LOADER_DATA. The allocated pages are aligned according
+ * to EFI_ALLOC_ALIGN. The last allocated page will not exceed the address
+ * given by @max.
+ *
+ * Return: status code
*/
efi_status_t efi_allocate_pages(unsigned long size, unsigned long *addr,
unsigned long max)