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authorAndreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>2017-09-19 12:41:37 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-09-19 15:18:33 -0700
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rhashtable: Documentation tweak
Clarify that rhashtable_walk_{stop,start} will not reset the iterator to the beginning of the hash table. Confusion between rhashtable_walk_enter and rhashtable_walk_start has already lead to a bug. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/rhashtable.c9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/rhashtable.c b/lib/rhashtable.c
index 707ca5d677c6..ddd7dde87c3c 100644
--- a/lib/rhashtable.c
+++ b/lib/rhashtable.c
@@ -735,9 +735,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rhashtable_walk_exit);
* rhashtable_walk_start - Start a hash table walk
* @iter: Hash table iterator
*
- * Start a hash table walk. Note that we take the RCU lock in all
- * cases including when we return an error. So you must always call
- * rhashtable_walk_stop to clean up.
+ * Start a hash table walk at the current iterator position. Note that we take
+ * the RCU lock in all cases including when we return an error. So you must
+ * always call rhashtable_walk_stop to clean up.
*
* Returns zero if successful.
*
@@ -846,7 +846,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rhashtable_walk_next);
* rhashtable_walk_stop - Finish a hash table walk
* @iter: Hash table iterator
*
- * Finish a hash table walk.
+ * Finish a hash table walk. Does not reset the iterator to the start of the
+ * hash table.
*/
void rhashtable_walk_stop(struct rhashtable_iter *iter)
__releases(RCU)