From: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@joelfernandes.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>,
Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>,
Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>,
rcu@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 5/6] doc: Update whatisRCU.rst
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 19:38:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230315193851.8598-5-joel@joelfernandes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230315193851.8598-1-joel@joelfernandes.org>
From: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>
The kfree_rcu() macro is deprecated. Rename it to its new
kfree_rcu_mightsleep() name in this documentation.
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
---
Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst
index 2c5563a91998..8eddef28d3a1 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst
@@ -597,10 +597,10 @@ to avoid having to write your own callback::
If the occasional sleep is permitted, the single-argument form may
be used, omitting the rcu_head structure from struct foo.
- kfree_rcu(old_fp);
+ kfree_rcu_mightsleep(old_fp);
-This variant of kfree_rcu() almost never blocks, but might do so by
-invoking synchronize_rcu() in response to memory-allocation failure.
+This variant almost never blocks, but might do so by invoking
+synchronize_rcu() in response to memory-allocation failure.
Again, see checklist.rst for additional rules governing the use of RCU.
--
2.40.0.rc1.284.g88254d51c5-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-15 19:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-15 19:38 [PATCH 1/6] srcu: Add comments for srcu_size_state Joel Fernandes (Google)
2023-03-15 19:38 ` [PATCH 2/6] Documentation/RCU: s/not/note/ in checklist.rst Joel Fernandes (Google)
2023-03-15 19:38 ` [PATCH 3/6] srcu: Clarify comments on memory barrier "E" Joel Fernandes (Google)
2023-03-15 19:38 ` [PATCH 4/6] Documentation: RCU: Correct spelling Joel Fernandes (Google)
2023-03-15 19:38 ` Joel Fernandes (Google) [this message]
2023-03-15 19:38 ` [PATCH 6/6] rcu: Add comment to rcu_do_batch() identifying rcuoc code path Joel Fernandes (Google)
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