Documentation: Replace del_timer/del_timer_sync()

Adjust to the new preferred function names.

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123201625.075320635@linutronix.de

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst
index b26e4a3a9b7e..c5b8678ed232 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst
@@ -967,7 +967,7 @@ you might do the following::
 
             while (list) {
                     struct foo *next = list->next;
-                    del_timer(&list->timer);
+                    timer_delete(&list->timer);
                     kfree(list);
                     list = next;
             }
@@ -981,7 +981,7 @@ the lock after we spin_unlock_bh(), and then try to free
 the element (which has already been freed!).
 
 This can be avoided by checking the result of
-del_timer(): if it returns 1, the timer has been deleted.
+timer_delete(): if it returns 1, the timer has been deleted.
 If 0, it means (in this case) that it is currently running, so we can
 do::
 
@@ -990,7 +990,7 @@ do::
 
                     while (list) {
                             struct foo *next = list->next;
-                            if (!del_timer(&list->timer)) {
+                            if (!timer_delete(&list->timer)) {
                                     /* Give timer a chance to delete this */
                                     spin_unlock_bh(&list_lock);
                                     goto retry;
@@ -1005,8 +1005,7 @@ do::
 Another common problem is deleting timers which restart themselves (by
 calling add_timer() at the end of their timer function).
 Because this is a fairly common case which is prone to races, you should
-use del_timer_sync() (``include/linux/timer.h``) to
-handle this case.
+use timer_delete_sync() (``include/linux/timer.h``) to handle this case.
 
 Locking Speed
 =============
@@ -1334,7 +1333,7 @@ lock.
 
 -  kfree()
 
--  add_timer() and del_timer()
+-  add_timer() and timer_delete()
 
 Mutex API reference
 ===================