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 --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.h') diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.h index ea511f06efaf..9ee2750e1dde 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.h +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_request.h @@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ static inline struct drm_i915_gem_request * __i915_gem_active_get_rcu(const struct i915_gem_active *active) { /* Performing a lockless retrieval of the active request is super - * tricky. SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU merely guarantees that the backing + * tricky. SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU merely guarantees that the backing * slab of request objects will not be freed whilst we hold the * RCU read lock. It does not guarantee that the request itself * will not be freed and then *reused*. Viz, -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b