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authorDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>2017-05-29 19:54:21 -0700
committerDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>2017-05-29 19:54:21 -0700
commitd8f797c60661a90ee26ca9330cf85ede9aa2ec17 (patch)
tree5038609885fc3e4cb7f329d974875ac4411c6af5 /include/linux/slab.h
parent8fd708157a592a376c4d0b3b2ba23b9e9f79caa5 (diff)
parent5ed02dbb497422bf225783f46e6eadd237d23d6b (diff)
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Merge tag 'v4.12-rc3' into next
Sync with mainline to bring in changes in platform drovers dropping calls to sparse_keymap_free() so that we can remove it for good.
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/slab.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/slab.h6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index 3c37a8c51921..04a7f7993e67 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
#define SLAB_STORE_USER 0x00010000UL /* DEBUG: Store the last owner for bug hunting */
#define SLAB_PANIC 0x00040000UL /* Panic if kmem_cache_create() fails */
/*
- * SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU - **WARNING** READ THIS!
+ * SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU - **WARNING** READ THIS!
*
* This delays freeing the SLAB page by a grace period, it does _NOT_
* delay object freeing. This means that if you do kmem_cache_free()
@@ -61,8 +61,10 @@
*
* rcu_read_lock before reading the address, then rcu_read_unlock after
* taking the spinlock within the structure expected at that address.
+ *
+ * Note that SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU was originally named SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU.
*/
-#define SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU 0x00080000UL /* Defer freeing slabs to RCU */
+#define SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU 0x00080000UL /* Defer freeing slabs to RCU */
#define SLAB_MEM_SPREAD 0x00100000UL /* Spread some memory over cpuset */
#define SLAB_TRACE 0x00200000UL /* Trace allocations and frees */