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diff --git a/Documentation/mm/zsmalloc.rst b/Documentation/mm/zsmalloc.rst index 76902835e68e..d2bbecd78e14 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/zsmalloc.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/zsmalloc.rst @@ -27,9 +27,8 @@ Instead, it returns an opaque handle (unsigned long) which encodes actual location of the allocated object. The reason for this indirection is that zsmalloc does not keep zspages permanently mapped since that would cause issues on 32-bit systems where the VA region for kernel space mappings -is very small. So, before using the allocating memory, the object has to -be mapped using zs_map_object() to get a usable pointer and subsequently -unmapped using zs_unmap_object(). +is very small. So, using the allocated memory should be done through the +proper handle-based APIs. stat ==== |