Update real-time/differences.rst to reflect new type-aware kmalloc-functions
as suggested in commit 2932ba8d9c99 ("slab: Introduce kmalloc_obj() and family")
Signed-off-by: Manuel Ebner <manuelebner@mailbox.org>
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Documentation/core-api/real-time/differences.rst | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/real-time/differences.rst b/Documentation/core-api/real-time/differences.rst
index 83ec9aa1c61a..6c2cc97b4938 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/real-time/differences.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/real-time/differences.rst
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ PREEMPT_RT, the timer must be marked with the HRTIMER_MODE_HARD flag.
Memory allocation
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-The memory allocation APIs, such as kmalloc() and alloc_pages(), require a
+The memory allocation APIs, such as kmalloc_obj() and alloc_pages(), require a
gfp_t flag to indicate the allocation context. On non-PREEMPT_RT kernels, it is
necessary to use GFP_ATOMIC when allocating memory from interrupt context or
from sections where preemption is disabled. This is because the allocator must
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