docs: deprecated.rst: Update an example

[PATCH] docs: deprecated.rst: Update an example

Posted by Christophe JAILLET 2 years, 7 months ago

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>
---
 Documentation/process/deprecated.rst | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst b/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst
index f91b8441f2ef..1f7f3e6c9cda 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst
@@ -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::
-- 
2.34.1

Re: [PATCH] docs: deprecated.rst: Update an example

Posted by Jonathan Corbet 2 years, 6 months ago

Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> writes:

> 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>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/deprecated.rst | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied, thanks.

jon