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Commit a64a26e8 authored by KOSAKI Motohiro's avatar KOSAKI Motohiro Committed by Linus Torvalds
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cpumask: add cpumask_var_t documentation



cpumask_var_t has one notable difference from cpumask_t.  Add the
explanation.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 37e7b5f1
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@@ -617,6 +617,20 @@ static inline size_t cpumask_size(void)
 *	  ... use 'tmpmask' like a normal struct cpumask * ...
 *
 *	free_cpumask_var(tmpmask);
 *
 *
 * However, one notable exception is there. alloc_cpumask_var() allocates
 * only nr_cpumask_bits bits (in the other hand, real cpumask_t always has
 * NR_CPUS bits). Therefore you don't have to dereference cpumask_var_t.
 *
 *	cpumask_var_t tmpmask;
 *	if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&tmpmask, GFP_KERNEL))
 *		return -ENOMEM;
 *
 *	var = *tmpmask;
 *
 * This code makes NR_CPUS length memcopy and brings to a memory corruption.
 * cpumask_copy() provide safe copy functionality.
 */
#ifdef CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
typedef struct cpumask *cpumask_var_t;