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authorJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2017-05-18 10:19:33 -0600
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2017-05-18 10:19:33 -0600
commita1a9af4e9d9ec65c22d3cfe449e0420d17dbedba (patch)
tree05bd08bb1987aa92b84b49b9ee4eee0ba3b2917f /include/linux/slab.h
parent25a0da73f24c95d57381bedd9cd89e4929b1bfde (diff)
parent2ea659a9ef488125eb46da6eb571de5eae5c43f6 (diff)
Merge tag 'v4.12-rc1' into docs-next
Linux 4.12-rc1
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/slab.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/slab.h6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index 3c37a8c51921..04a7f7993e67 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
#define SLAB_STORE_USER 0x00010000UL /* DEBUG: Store the last owner for bug hunting */
#define SLAB_PANIC 0x00040000UL /* Panic if kmem_cache_create() fails */
/*
- * SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU - **WARNING** READ THIS!
+ * SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU - **WARNING** READ THIS!
*
* This delays freeing the SLAB page by a grace period, it does _NOT_
* delay object freeing. This means that if you do kmem_cache_free()
@@ -61,8 +61,10 @@
*
* rcu_read_lock before reading the address, then rcu_read_unlock after
* taking the spinlock within the structure expected at that address.
+ *
+ * Note that SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU was originally named SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU.
*/
-#define SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU 0x00080000UL /* Defer freeing slabs to RCU */
+#define SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU 0x00080000UL /* Defer freeing slabs to RCU */
#define SLAB_MEM_SPREAD 0x00100000UL /* Spread some memory over cpuset */
#define SLAB_TRACE 0x00200000UL /* Trace allocations and frees */