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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>2019-02-18 10:12:12 -0500
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@@ -108,12 +108,13 @@ some, but not all of the other indices changing.
Sometimes you need to ensure that a subsequent call to :c:func:`xa_store`
will not need to allocate memory. The :c:func:`xa_reserve` function
-will store a reserved entry at the indicated index. Users of the normal
-API will see this entry as containing ``NULL``. If you do not need to
-use the reserved entry, you can call :c:func:`xa_release` to remove the
-unused entry. If another user has stored to the entry in the meantime,
-:c:func:`xa_release` will do nothing; if instead you want the entry to
-become ``NULL``, you should use :c:func:`xa_erase`.
+will store a reserved entry at the indicated index. Users of the
+normal API will see this entry as containing ``NULL``. If you do
+not need to use the reserved entry, you can call :c:func:`xa_release`
+to remove the unused entry. If another user has stored to the entry
+in the meantime, :c:func:`xa_release` will do nothing; if instead you
+want the entry to become ``NULL``, you should use :c:func:`xa_erase`.
+Using :c:func:`xa_insert` on a reserved entry will fail.
If all entries in the array are ``NULL``, the :c:func:`xa_empty` function
will return ``true``.
@@ -183,6 +184,8 @@ Takes xa_lock internally:
* :c:func:`xa_store_bh`
* :c:func:`xa_store_irq`
* :c:func:`xa_insert`
+ * :c:func:`xa_insert_bh`
+ * :c:func:`xa_insert_irq`
* :c:func:`xa_erase`
* :c:func:`xa_erase_bh`
* :c:func:`xa_erase_irq`