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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/acpi/acpica/utalloc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/acpi/acpica/utalloc.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/utalloc.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/utalloc.c index 814267f5271..efac83c606d 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/utalloc.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/utalloc.c @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ *****************************************************************************/ /* - * Copyright (C) 2000 - 2013, Intel Corp. + * Copyright (C) 2000 - 2014, Intel Corp. * All rights reserved. * * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without @@ -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; |