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| author | Philipp Stanner <pstanner@redhat.com> | 2023-08-21 10:21:29 +0200 |
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| committer | Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> | 2023-09-05 19:01:38 -0400 |
| commit | e7716c74e3882405f9eca16faa6cb1bf19995399 (patch) | |
| tree | 13fcc03b9751bd875fb3c67ac1002118a27d1566 /lib | |
| parent | cbc02854331edc6dc22d8b77b6e22e38ebc7dd51 (diff) | |
xarray: Document necessary flag in alloc functions
Adds a new line to the docstrings of functions wrapping __xa_alloc() and
__xa_alloc_cyclic(), informing about the necessity of flag XA_FLAGS_ALLOC
being set previously.
The documentation so far says that functions wrapping __xa_alloc() and
__xa_alloc_cyclic() are supposed to return either -ENOMEM or -EBUSY in
case of an error. If the xarray has been initialized without the flag
XA_FLAGS_ALLOC, however, they fail with a different, undocumented error
code.
As hinted at in Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst, wrappers around these
functions should only be invoked when the flag has been set. The
functions' documentation should reflect that as well.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Stanner <pstanner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/xarray.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/xarray.c b/lib/xarray.c index 142e36f9dfda..39f07bfc4dcc 100644 --- a/lib/xarray.c +++ b/lib/xarray.c @@ -1802,6 +1802,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(xa_get_order); * stores the index into the @id pointer, then stores the entry at * that index. A concurrent lookup will not see an uninitialised @id. * + * Must only be operated on an xarray initialized with flag XA_FLAGS_ALLOC set + * in xa_init_flags(). + * * Context: Any context. Expects xa_lock to be held on entry. May * release and reacquire xa_lock if @gfp flags permit. * Return: 0 on success, -ENOMEM if memory could not be allocated or @@ -1850,6 +1853,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__xa_alloc); * The search for an empty entry will start at @next and will wrap * around if necessary. * + * Must only be operated on an xarray initialized with flag XA_FLAGS_ALLOC set + * in xa_init_flags(). + * * Context: Any context. Expects xa_lock to be held on entry. May * release and reacquire xa_lock if @gfp flags permit. * Return: 0 if the allocation succeeded without wrapping. 1 if the |