flex_array: flex_array_prealloc takes a number of elements, not an end
authorEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:55:52 +0000 (15:55 -0400)
committerEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:12:47 +0000 (16:12 -0400)
commit5d30b10bd68df007e7ae21e77d1e0ce184b53040
tree61d97a80d0fac7c6dfd97db7040fedd75771adda
parentcb1e922fa104bb0bb3aa5fc6ca7f7e070f3b55e9
flex_array: flex_array_prealloc takes a number of elements, not an end

Change flex_array_prealloc to take the number of elements for which space
should be allocated instead of the last (inclusive) element. Users
and documentation are updated accordingly.  flex_arrays got introduced before
they had users.  When folks started using it, they ended up needing a
different API than was coded up originally.  This swaps over to the API that
folks apparently need.

Based-on-patch-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Chris Richards <gizmo@giz-works.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.38+]
Documentation/flexible-arrays.txt
include/linux/flex_array.h
lib/flex_array.c
security/selinux/ss/policydb.c