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| author | Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> | 2014-01-08 06:43:23 +0100 |
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| committer | Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> | 2014-01-08 15:31:36 +0100 |
| commit | bb3fec146c8561441db058db07b3fbdd7fe7e1df (patch) | |
| tree | 4ec8e389084149ebf95831cef14de002dddb5055 /drivers/acpi/acpica/utalloc.c | |
| parent | ACPICA: Disassembler: Improve pathname support for emitted External() stateme... (diff) | |
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ACPICA: Remove unused ACPI_FREE_BUFFER macro. No functional change.
This macro is no longer used by ACPICA and it is not public.
Also update comments related to the use of ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER and
the use of acpi_os_free (kfree is equivalent and prefered in the
kernel) to free the buffer.
Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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; |