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| author | Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> | 2017-09-25 17:41:59 +0200 |
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| committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2017-10-02 11:55:24 +0200 |
| commit | 19205da6a0da701787d42ad754edd1ffb514c956 (patch) | |
| tree | 092e65563913317f9f23fdc10cd464dfbf5dad0c /Documentation/livepatch | |
| parent | 5d9da759f7587c87252ef98e70bc0b4a89e4d036 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-19205da6a0da701787d42ad754edd1ffb514c956.tar.gz lwn-19205da6a0da701787d42ad754edd1ffb514c956.zip | |
livepatch: Small shadow variable documentation fixes
The description of the basic operations was a bit inconsistent
and based on older version of the patchset.
Also the size of the spinlock structure should be allocated
instead of the pointer.
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/livepatch')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/livepatch/shadow-vars.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/livepatch/shadow-vars.txt b/Documentation/livepatch/shadow-vars.txt index e3ffc4301bfa..89c66634d600 100644 --- a/Documentation/livepatch/shadow-vars.txt +++ b/Documentation/livepatch/shadow-vars.txt @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Shadow variables are a simple way for livepatch modules to associate additional "shadow" data with existing data structures. Shadow data is allocated separately from parent data structures, which are left unmodified. The shadow variable API described in this document is used -to allocate/attach and detach/release shadow variables to their parents. +to allocate/add and remove/free shadow variables to/from their parents. The implementation introduces a global, in-kernel hashtable that associates pointers to parent objects and a numeric identifier of the @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ struct sta_info *sta_info_alloc(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, sta = kzalloc(sizeof(*sta) + hw->sta_data_size, gfp); /* Attach a corresponding shadow variable, then initialize it */ - ps_lock = klp_shadow_alloc(sta, PS_LOCK, NULL, sizeof(ps_lock), gfp); + ps_lock = klp_shadow_alloc(sta, PS_LOCK, NULL, sizeof(*ps_lock), gfp); if (!ps_lock) goto shadow_fail; spin_lock_init(ps_lock); |