[PATCH] docs/core-api: memory-allocation: clarify when to use kzalloc_obj and kzalloc

[Mike Rapoport]

From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>

Make it abundantly clear that in the most cases objects should be
allocated with kzalloc_obj() and buffers should be allocated with
kzalloc().

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

This applies on top of "docs/core-api: memory-allocation: add
k[mz]alloc_obj() and clarify kmalloc" series

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260902-docs-memalloc-guide-v2-0-218c1a4dcb80@xxxxxxxxxx

 Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst b/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst
index 823f7fa57429b..648222b6c8576 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst
@@ -23,12 +23,14 @@ answer, although very likely you should use
 
   kzalloc_obj(<VAR_OR_TYPE>);
 
-or
+if you need memory for an object and
 
 ::
 
   kzalloc(<size>, GFP_KERNEL);
 
+if you need memory for a buffer.
+
 Of course there are cases when other allocation APIs and different GFP
 flags must be used.
 

base-commit: d7dd88ed029164fe0a959e126d0ce18dd3719f89
-- 
2.53.0