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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; |