From 81573694a48599f1edf928f390c6dcab5cbb6f49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2023 16:09:53 +0100 Subject: 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) Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) --- Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/RCU') 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. -- cgit v1.2.3