| From | Mike Frysinger <> | Subject | [PATCH 53/62] Blackfin: document the lsl variants of the L1 allocator | Date | Fri, 5 Jun 2009 04:05:02 -0400 |
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Make sure the meaning of "lsl" is covered somewhere and it is clear why we somewhat duplicate the sram alloc/free functions.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> --- arch/blackfin/mm/sram-alloc.c | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/blackfin/mm/sram-alloc.c b/arch/blackfin/mm/sram-alloc.c index fa54a4e..0bc3c4e 100644 --- a/arch/blackfin/mm/sram-alloc.c +++ b/arch/blackfin/mm/sram-alloc.c @@ -743,6 +743,10 @@ found: } EXPORT_SYMBOL(sram_free_with_lsl); +/* Allocate memory and keep in L1 SRAM List (lsl) so that the resources are + * tracked. These are designed for userspace so that when a process exits, + * we can safely reap their resources. + */ void *sram_alloc_with_lsl(size_t size, unsigned long flags) { void *addr = NULL; -- 1.6.3.1
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