mm/vmalloc.c: add vfree comment
authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 7 May 2013 23:18:18 +0000 (16:18 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 8 May 2013 01:38:27 +0000 (18:38 -0700)
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/vmalloc.c

index b12fd86..d365724 100644 (file)
@@ -1522,6 +1522,8 @@ static void __vunmap(const void *addr, int deallocate_pages)
  *     Must not be called in NMI context (strictly speaking, only if we don't
  *     have CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG, but making the calling
  *     conventions for vfree() arch-depenedent would be a really bad idea)
+ *
+ *     NOTE: assumes that the object at *addr has a size >= sizeof(llist_node)
  *     
  */
 void vfree(const void *addr)