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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/llc_sap.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/llc_sap.c')
-rw-r--r--net/llc/llc_sap.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/llc/llc_sap.c b/net/llc/llc_sap.c
index 5404d0d195cc..63b6ab056370 100644
--- a/net/llc/llc_sap.c
+++ b/net/llc/llc_sap.c
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ static struct sock *llc_lookup_dgram(struct llc_sap *sap,
 again:
 	sk_nulls_for_each_rcu(rc, node, laddr_hb) {
 		if (llc_dgram_match(sap, laddr, rc)) {
-			/* Extra checks required by SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU */
+			/* Extra checks required by SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU */
 			if (unlikely(!atomic_inc_not_zero(&rc->sk_refcnt)))
 				goto again;
 			if (unlikely(llc_sk(rc)->sap != sap ||