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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-08-03 10:02:28 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-08-03 10:02:28 -0700
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Merge tag 'xarray-6.0' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/xarray
Pull XArray/IDR updates from Matthew Wilcox: - Add appropriate might_alloc() annotations to the XArray APIs - Document that the IDR is deprecated * tag 'xarray-6.0' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/xarray: IDR: Note that the IDR API is deprecated XArray: Add calls to might_alloc()
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@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ solution to the problem to avoid everybody inventing their own. The IDR
provides the ability to map an ID to a pointer, while the IDA provides
only ID allocation, and as a result is much more memory-efficient.
+The IDR interface is deprecated; please use the :doc:`XArray <xarray>`
+instead.
+
IDR usage
=========