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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-01-18 02:53:44 -0800
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-04-18 11:42:36 -0700
commit5f0d5a3ae7cff0d7fa943c199c3a2e44f23e1fac (patch)
treeb7ba2116923723e193dfe7c633ec10056c6b1b53 /net/llc/af_llc.c
parent4495c08e84729385774601b5146d51d9e5849f81 (diff)
downloadlinux-5f0d5a3ae7cff0d7fa943c199c3a2e44f23e1fac.tar.gz
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 'net/llc/af_llc.c')
-rw-r--r--net/llc/af_llc.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/llc/af_llc.c b/net/llc/af_llc.c
index 06186d608a27..d096ca563054 100644
--- a/net/llc/af_llc.c
+++ b/net/llc/af_llc.c
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ static struct proto llc_proto = {
 	.name	  = "LLC",
 	.owner	  = THIS_MODULE,
 	.obj_size = sizeof(struct llc_sock),
-	.slab_flags = SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU,
+	.slab_flags = SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU,
 };
 
 /**