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| author | Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]> | 2017-01-18 10:53:44 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]> | 2017-04-18 18:42:36 +0000 |
| commit | 5f0d5a3ae7cff0d7fa943c199c3a2e44f23e1fac (patch) | |
| tree | b7ba2116923723e193dfe7c633ec10056c6b1b53 /net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | |
| parent | Linux 4.11-rc2 (diff) | |
| download | kernel-5f0d5a3ae7cff0d7fa943c199c3a2e44f23e1fac.tar.gz kernel-5f0d5a3ae7cff0d7fa943c199c3a2e44f23e1fac.zip | |
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 <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
[ 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 <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c index 60a5295a7de6..bdbc4327ebee 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c +++ b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c @@ -1919,7 +1919,7 @@ struct proto tcpv6_prot = { .sysctl_rmem = sysctl_tcp_rmem, .max_header = MAX_TCP_HEADER, .obj_size = sizeof(struct tcp6_sock), - .slab_flags = SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU, + .slab_flags = SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU, .twsk_prot = &tcp6_timewait_sock_ops, .rsk_prot = &tcp6_request_sock_ops, .h.hashinfo = &tcp_hashinfo, |
