From: Manuel Ebner <[email protected]> Update Documentation/RCU/* to suggest using the new type-aware kmalloc_obj() per commit 2932ba8d9c99 ("slab: Introduce kmalloc_obj() and family")
p = kmalloc(...); -> p = kmalloc_obj(...); Signed-off-by: Manuel Ebner <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]> --- Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.rst b/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.rst index 2524dcdadde2b8..5bc3785ebfc2ae 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.rst +++ b/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.rst @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ precautions. To see this, consider the following code fragment:: { struct foo *p; - p = kmalloc(...); + p = kmalloc_obj(*p); if (p == NULL) deal_with_it(); p->a = 42; /* Each field in its own cache line. */ @@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ Then one approach is to use locking, for example, as follows:: { struct foo *p; - p = kmalloc(...); + p = kmalloc_obj(*p); if (p == NULL) deal_with_it(); spin_lock(&p->lock); -- 2.40.1
