Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare second round of input updates for 5.3 merge window.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
index 8ea913e99fa1..fa864a51e6ea 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
@@ -843,7 +843,8 @@ used.
 The kernel provides the following general purpose memory allocators:
 kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kmalloc_array(), kcalloc(), vmalloc(), and
 vzalloc().  Please refer to the API documentation for further information
-about them.
+about them.  :ref:`Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst
+<memory_allocation>`
 
 The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following:
 
@@ -874,6 +875,9 @@ The preferred form for allocating a zeroed array is the following:
 Both forms check for overflow on the allocation size n * sizeof(...),
 and return NULL if that occurred.
 
+These generic allocation functions all emit a stack dump on failure when used
+without __GFP_NOWARN so there is no use in emitting an additional failure
+message when NULL is returned.
 
 15) The inline disease
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