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diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 9aad8b0cc6ee..659ec634856a 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -241,7 +241,6 @@ struct vm_struct *__get_vm_area(unsigned long size, unsigned long flags,
/**
* get_vm_area - reserve a contingous kernel virtual area
- *
* @size: size of the area
* @flags: %VM_IOREMAP for I/O mappings or VM_ALLOC
*
@@ -296,7 +295,6 @@ found:
/**
* remove_vm_area - find and remove a contingous kernel virtual area
- *
* @addr: base address
*
* Search for the kernel VM area starting at @addr, and remove it.
@@ -355,7 +353,6 @@ void __vunmap(void *addr, int deallocate_pages)
/**
* vfree - release memory allocated by vmalloc()
- *
* @addr: memory base address
*
* Free the virtually contiguous memory area starting at @addr, as
@@ -373,7 +370,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfree);
/**
* vunmap - release virtual mapping obtained by vmap()
- *
* @addr: memory base address
*
* Free the virtually contiguous memory area starting at @addr,
@@ -390,7 +386,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vunmap);
/**
* vmap - map an array of pages into virtually contiguous space
- *
* @pages: array of page pointers
* @count: number of pages to map
* @flags: vm_area->flags
@@ -471,7 +466,6 @@ void *__vmalloc_area(struct vm_struct *area, gfp_t gfp_mask, pgprot_t prot)
/**
* __vmalloc_node - allocate virtually contiguous memory
- *
* @size: allocation size
* @gfp_mask: flags for the page level allocator
* @prot: protection mask for the allocated pages
@@ -505,9 +499,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__vmalloc);
/**
* vmalloc - allocate virtually contiguous memory
- *
* @size: allocation size
- *
* Allocate enough pages to cover @size from the page level
* allocator and map them into contiguous kernel virtual space.
*
@@ -521,11 +513,11 @@ void *vmalloc(unsigned long size)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc);
/**
- * vmalloc_user - allocate virtually contiguous memory which has
- * been zeroed so it can be mapped to userspace without
- * leaking data.
+ * vmalloc_user - allocate zeroed virtually contiguous memory for userspace
+ * @size: allocation size
*
- * @size: allocation size
+ * The resulting memory area is zeroed so it can be mapped to userspace
+ * without leaking data.
*/
void *vmalloc_user(unsigned long size)
{
@@ -544,7 +536,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc_user);
/**
* vmalloc_node - allocate memory on a specific node
- *
* @size: allocation size
* @node: numa node
*
@@ -566,7 +557,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc_node);
/**
* vmalloc_exec - allocate virtually contiguous, executable memory
- *
* @size: allocation size
*
* Kernel-internal function to allocate enough pages to cover @size
@@ -584,7 +574,6 @@ void *vmalloc_exec(unsigned long size)
/**
* vmalloc_32 - allocate virtually contiguous memory (32bit addressable)
- *
* @size: allocation size
*
* Allocate enough 32bit PA addressable pages to cover @size from the
@@ -597,11 +586,11 @@ void *vmalloc_32(unsigned long size)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc_32);
/**
- * vmalloc_32_user - allocate virtually contiguous memory (32bit
- * addressable) which is zeroed so it can be
- * mapped to userspace without leaking data.
- *
+ * vmalloc_32_user - allocate zeroed virtually contiguous 32bit memory
* @size: allocation size
+ *
+ * The resulting memory area is 32bit addressable and zeroed so it can be
+ * mapped to userspace without leaking data.
*/
void *vmalloc_32_user(unsigned long size)
{
@@ -695,7 +684,6 @@ finished:
/**
* remap_vmalloc_range - map vmalloc pages to userspace
- *
* @vma: vma to cover (map full range of vma)
* @addr: vmalloc memory
* @pgoff: number of pages into addr before first page to map