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authorEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2011-04-28 15:55:52 -0400
committerEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2011-04-28 16:12:47 -0400
commit5d30b10bd68df007e7ae21e77d1e0ce184b53040 (patch)
tree61d97a80d0fac7c6dfd97db7040fedd75771adda /Documentation/flexible-arrays.txt
parentcb1e922fa104bb0bb3aa5fc6ca7f7e070f3b55e9 (diff)
flex_array: flex_array_prealloc takes a number of elements, not an end
Change flex_array_prealloc to take the number of elements for which space should be allocated instead of the last (inclusive) element. Users and documentation are updated accordingly. flex_arrays got introduced before they had users. When folks started using it, they ended up needing a different API than was coded up originally. This swaps over to the API that folks apparently need. Based-on-patch-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Tested-by: Chris Richards <gizmo@giz-works.com> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.38+]
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@@ -66,10 +66,10 @@ trick is to ensure that any needed memory allocations are done before
entering atomic context, using:
int flex_array_prealloc(struct flex_array *array, unsigned int start,
- unsigned int end, gfp_t flags);
+ unsigned int nr_elements, gfp_t flags);
This function will ensure that memory for the elements indexed in the range
-defined by start and end has been allocated. Thereafter, a
+defined by start and nr_elements has been allocated. Thereafter, a
flex_array_put() call on an element in that range is guaranteed not to
block.