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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2014-02-02 09:45:39 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2014-02-02 09:45:39 +0100 |
| commit | eaa4e4fcf1b5c60e656d93242f7fe422173f25b2 (patch) | |
| tree | c05d5d6ca3f625d72a9d136b4c485d3dc9472089 /drivers/acpi/acpica/utalloc.c | |
| parent | be1e4e760d940c14d119bffef5eb007dfdf29046 (diff) | |
| parent | 5cb480f6b488128140c940abff3c36f524a334a8 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core, to resolve conflicts
Conflicts:
kernel/sysctl.c
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/acpi/acpica/utalloc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/acpi/acpica/utalloc.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/utalloc.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/utalloc.c index 814267f52715..1851762fc5b5 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/utalloc.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/utalloc.c @@ -302,9 +302,13 @@ acpi_ut_initialize_buffer(struct acpi_buffer * buffer, return (AE_BUFFER_OVERFLOW); case ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER: - - /* Allocate a new buffer */ - + /* + * Allocate a new buffer. We directectly call acpi_os_allocate here to + * purposefully bypass the (optionally enabled) internal allocation + * tracking mechanism since we only want to track internal + * allocations. Note: The caller should use acpi_os_free to free this + * buffer created via ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER. + */ buffer->pointer = acpi_os_allocate(required_length); break; |