From 5f0d5a3ae7cff0d7fa943c199c3a2e44f23e1fac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 02:53:44 -0800 Subject: 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 Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka [ 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 --- include/net/sock.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/net/sock.h') diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h index 5e59976..59cdcca 100644 --- a/include/net/sock.h +++ b/include/net/sock.h @@ -993,7 +993,7 @@ struct smc_hashinfo; struct module; /* - * caches using SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU should let .next pointer from nulls nodes + * caches using SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU should let .next pointer from nulls nodes * un-modified. Special care is taken when initializing object to zero. */ static inline void sk_prot_clear_nulls(struct sock *sk, int size) -- cgit v1.1