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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-05-10 19:50:55 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-05-10 20:30:46 +0300
commitde4d195308ad589626571dbe5789cebf9695a204 (patch)
tree77a6bd6946594ea4e7513aaa73009295530960a1 /include/linux/slab.h
parentdc9edaab90de9441cc28ac570b23b0d2bdba7879 (diff)
parent20652ed6e44f4963281b65209b917be86ac6765b (diff)
downloadlinux-de4d195308ad589626571dbe5789cebf9695a204.tar.xz
Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes are: - Debloat RCU headers - Parallelize SRCU callback handling (plus overlapping patches) - Improve the performance of Tree SRCU on a CPU-hotplug stress test - Documentation updates - Miscellaneous fixes" * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (74 commits) rcu: Open-code the rcu_cblist_n_lazy_cbs() function rcu: Open-code the rcu_cblist_n_cbs() function rcu: Open-code the rcu_cblist_empty() function rcu: Separately compile large rcu_segcblist functions srcu: Debloat the <linux/rcu_segcblist.h> header srcu: Adjust default auto-expediting holdoff srcu: Specify auto-expedite holdoff time srcu: Expedite first synchronize_srcu() when idle srcu: Expedited grace periods with reduced memory contention srcu: Make rcutorture writer stalls print SRCU GP state srcu: Exact tracking of srcu_data structures containing callbacks srcu: Make SRCU be built by default srcu: Fix Kconfig botch when SRCU not selected rcu: Make non-preemptive schedule be Tasks RCU quiescent state srcu: Expedite srcu_schedule_cbs_snp() callback invocation srcu: Parallelize callback handling kvm: Move srcu_struct fields to end of struct kvm rcu: Fix typo in PER_RCU_NODE_PERIOD header comment rcu: Use true/false in assignment to bool rcu: Use bool value directly ...
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/slab.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/slab.h6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index 3c37a8c51921..04a7f7993e67 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
#define SLAB_STORE_USER 0x00010000UL /* DEBUG: Store the last owner for bug hunting */
#define SLAB_PANIC 0x00040000UL /* Panic if kmem_cache_create() fails */
/*
- * SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU - **WARNING** READ THIS!
+ * SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU - **WARNING** READ THIS!
*
* This delays freeing the SLAB page by a grace period, it does _NOT_
* delay object freeing. This means that if you do kmem_cache_free()
@@ -61,8 +61,10 @@
*
* rcu_read_lock before reading the address, then rcu_read_unlock after
* taking the spinlock within the structure expected at that address.
+ *
+ * Note that SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU was originally named SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU.
*/
-#define SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU 0x00080000UL /* Defer freeing slabs to RCU */
+#define SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU 0x00080000UL /* Defer freeing slabs to RCU */
#define SLAB_MEM_SPREAD 0x00100000UL /* Spread some memory over cpuset */
#define SLAB_TRACE 0x00200000UL /* Trace allocations and frees */