[PATCH 5/6] doc: Update whatisRCU.rst
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From: Joel Fernandes (Google) <hidden>
Date: 2023-03-15 19:39:53
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documentation, read-copy update (rcu), the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, "Paul E. McKenney", Frederic Weisbecker, Neeraj Upadhyay, Joel Fernandes, Josh Triplett, Boqun Feng, Uladzislau Rezki, Linus Torvalds
From: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com> The kfree_rcu() macro is deprecated. Rename it to its new kfree_rcu_mightsleep() name in this documentation. Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <redacted> --- Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst | 6 +++--- 1 file 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.
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