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| author | Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> | 2023-02-01 16:09:53 +0100 |
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| committer | Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> | 2023-04-05 13:47:18 +0000 |
| commit | 81573694a48599f1edf928f390c6dcab5cbb6f49 (patch) | |
| tree | bf57bafc295ec693c37cc4bd98d686e6cba64d2d /Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst | |
| parent | c4af9e00894575797395e6cdd98b3a227ee70e29 (diff) | |
doc: Update whatisRCU.rst
The kfree_rcu() macro is deprecated. Rename it to its new
kfree_rcu_mightsleep() name in this documentation.
Acked-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
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>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst | 6 |
1 files 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. |