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authorChristophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>2023-06-25 22:12:24 +0200
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2023-07-14 13:36:31 -0600
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docs: deprecated.rst: Update an example
vmalloc() has a 2-factor form. It is vmalloc_array(). So use another function as an example. Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3484e46180dd2cf05d993ff1a78b481bc2ad1f71.1687723931.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr
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@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ kzalloc() can be replaced with kcalloc().
If no 2-factor form is available, the saturate-on-overflow helpers should
be used::
- bar = vmalloc(array_size(count, size));
+ bar = dma_alloc_coherent(dev, array_size(count, size), &dma, GFP_KERNEL);
Another common case to avoid is calculating the size of a structure with
a trailing array of others structures, as in::