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r: 125648
b: refs/heads/master
c: ec26b80
h: refs/heads/master
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 7b4967c532045a1983d6d4af5c69cc7c5109f62b
+refs/heads/master: ec26b805879c7e77865b39ee91b737985e80006d

trunk/lib/cpumask.c

@@ -76,6 +76,20 @@ int cpumask_any_but(const struct cpumask *mask, unsigned int cpu)
 
 /* These are not inline because of header tangles. */
 #ifdef CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
+/**
+ * alloc_cpumask_var_node - allocate a struct cpumask on a given node
+ * @mask: pointer to cpumask_var_t where the cpumask is returned
+ * @flags: GFP_ flags
+ *
+ * Only defined when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y, otherwise is
+ * a nop returning a constant 1 (in <linux/cpumask.h>)
+ * Returns TRUE if memory allocation succeeded, FALSE otherwise.
+ *
+ * In addition, mask will be NULL if this fails.  Note that gcc is
+ * usually smart enough to know that mask can never be NULL if
+ * CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=n, so does code elimination in that case
+ * too.
+ */
 bool alloc_cpumask_var_node(cpumask_var_t *mask, gfp_t flags, int node)
 {
 	if (likely(slab_is_available()))
@@ -97,23 +111,52 @@ bool alloc_cpumask_var_node(cpumask_var_t *mask, gfp_t flags, int node)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_cpumask_var_node);
 
+/**
+ * alloc_cpumask_var - allocate a struct cpumask
+ * @mask: pointer to cpumask_var_t where the cpumask is returned
+ * @flags: GFP_ flags
+ *
+ * Only defined when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y, otherwise is
+ * a nop returning a constant 1 (in <linux/cpumask.h>).
+ *
+ * See alloc_cpumask_var_node.
+ */
 bool alloc_cpumask_var(cpumask_var_t *mask, gfp_t flags)
 {
 	return alloc_cpumask_var_node(mask, flags, numa_node_id());
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_cpumask_var);
 
+/**
+ * alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var - allocate a struct cpumask from the bootmem arena.
+ * @mask: pointer to cpumask_var_t where the cpumask is returned
+ *
+ * Only defined when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y, otherwise is
+ * a nop returning a constant 1 (in <linux/cpumask.h>)
+ * Either returns an allocated (zero-filled) cpumask, or causes the
+ * system to panic.
+ */
 void __init alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var(cpumask_var_t *mask)
 {
 	*mask = alloc_bootmem(cpumask_size());
 }
 
+/**
+ * free_cpumask_var - frees memory allocated for a struct cpumask.
+ * @mask: cpumask to free
+ *
+ * This is safe on a NULL mask.
+ */
 void free_cpumask_var(cpumask_var_t mask)
 {
 	kfree(mask);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(free_cpumask_var);
 
+/**
+ * free_bootmem_cpumask_var - frees result of alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var
+ * @mask: cpumask to free
+ */
 void __init free_bootmem_cpumask_var(cpumask_var_t mask)
 {
 	free_bootmem((unsigned long)mask, cpumask_size());