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kfifo: document everywhere that size has to be power of two

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On my first try using them I missed that the fifos need to be power of
two, resulting in a runtime bug.  Document that requirement everywhere
(and fix one grammar bug)

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andi Kleen
2010-01-15 17:01:17 -08:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent d994ffc247
commit 5dab600e6a
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@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ static void _kfifo_init(struct kfifo *fifo, void *buffer,
* kfifo_init - initialize a FIFO using a preallocated buffer
* @fifo: the fifo to assign the buffer
* @buffer: the preallocated buffer to be used.
* @size: the size of the internal buffer, this have to be a power of 2.
* @size: the size of the internal buffer, this has to be a power of 2.
*
*/
void kfifo_init(struct kfifo *fifo, void *buffer, unsigned int size)