mm: slab: provide krealloc_array()

[linux-2.6-microblaze.git] / Documentation / core-api / memory-allocation.rst

diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst b/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst
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--- a/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst
@@ -147,6 +147,10 @@ The address of a chunk allocated with `kmalloc` is aligned to at least
 ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN bytes.  For sizes which are a power of two, the
 alignment is also guaranteed to be at least the respective size.
 
+Chunks allocated with kmalloc() can be resized with krealloc(). Similarly
+to kmalloc_array(): a helper for resizing arrays is provided in the form of
+krealloc_array().
+
 For large allocations you can use vmalloc() and vzalloc(), or directly
 request pages from the page allocator. The memory allocated by `vmalloc`
 and related functions is not physically contiguous.