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| author | Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> | 2026-09-07 09:36:54 +0300 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-10-08 22:55:02 -0700 |
| commit | 6fc433516140e77f6fd54665bf975b5bc8413c3e (patch) | |
| tree | ac936e663c798cd84db966e8eb0aa7c92e49ce08 /include/linux | |
| parent | 9c16259ac970597ffbadce84e3a6a8f249562b41 (diff) | |
docs/core-api: memory-allocation: clarify when to use kzalloc_obj and kzalloc
Make it abundantly clear that in the most cases objects should be
allocated with kzalloc_obj() and buffers should be allocated with
kzalloc().
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260907063654.2248617-1-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
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