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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2017-01-18 02:53:44 -0800 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2017-04-18 11:42:36 -0700 |
| commit | 5f0d5a3ae7cff0d7fa943c199c3a2e44f23e1fac (patch) | |
| tree | b7ba2116923723e193dfe7c633ec10056c6b1b53 /kernel/signal.c | |
| parent | 4495c08e84729385774601b5146d51d9e5849f81 (diff) | |
| download | linux-5f0d5a3ae7cff0d7fa943c199c3a2e44f23e1fac.tar.bz2 | |
mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU
A group of Linux kernel hackers reported chasing a bug that resulted
from their assumption that SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU provided an existence
guarantee, that is, that no block from such a slab would be reallocated
during an RCU read-side critical section. Of course, that is not the
case. Instead, SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU only prevents freeing of an entire
slab of blocks.
However, there is a phrase for this, namely "type safety". This commit
therefore renames SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU in order
to avoid future instances of this sort of confusion.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
[ paulmck: Add comments mentioning the old name, as requested by Eric
Dumazet, in order to help people familiar with the old name find
the new one. ]
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/signal.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/signal.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index 7e59ebc2c25e..6df5f72158e4 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -1237,7 +1237,7 @@ struct sighand_struct *__lock_task_sighand(struct task_struct *tsk, } /* * This sighand can be already freed and even reused, but - * we rely on SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU and sighand_ctor() which + * we rely on SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU and sighand_ctor() which * initializes ->siglock: this slab can't go away, it has * the same object type, ->siglock can't be reinitialized. * |