Re: [PATCH] mm, slab: corrected the comment 'kmem_cache_alloc' to 'slab_alloc_node'

[Pekka Enberg]

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Zhouping Liu <sanweidaying@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Zhouping Liu <zliu@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> commit 48356303ff(mm, slab: Rename __cache_alloc() -> slab_alloc())
> forgot to update the comment 'kmem_cache_alloc' to 'slab_alloc_node'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhouping Liu <zliu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  mm/slab.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
> index 8ccd296..8efb5f7 100644
> --- a/mm/slab.c
> +++ b/mm/slab.c
> @@ -3339,7 +3339,7 @@ done:
>  }
>
>  /**
> - * kmem_cache_alloc_node - Allocate an object on the specified node
> + * slab_alloc_node - Allocate an object on the specified node
>   * @cachep: The cache to allocate from.
>   * @flags: See kmalloc().
>   * @nodeid: node number of the target node.

The point of the comment is to document kernel API and whereas
slab_alloc_node() is internal to the slab allocator. Can you please
just move it on top of kmem_cache_alloc_node() definition in the same
file?

                        Pekka
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