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mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU

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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>
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Paul E. McKenney
2017-01-18 02:53:44 -08:00
parent 4495c08e84
commit 5f0d5a3ae7
30 changed files with 57 additions and 54 deletions
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@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ static inline struct dma_fence *dma_fence_get_rcu(struct dma_fence *fence)
*
* Function returns NULL if no refcount could be obtained, or the fence.
* This function handles acquiring a reference to a fence that may be
* reallocated within the RCU grace period (such as with SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU),
* reallocated within the RCU grace period (such as with SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU),
* so long as the caller is using RCU on the pointer to the fence.
*
* An alternative mechanism is to employ a seqlock to protect a bunch of
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ dma_fence_get_rcu_safe(struct dma_fence * __rcu *fencep)
* have successfully acquire a reference to it. If it no
* longer matches, we are holding a reference to some other
* reallocated pointer. This is possible if the allocator
* is using a freelist like SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU where the
* is using a freelist like SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU where the
* fence remains valid for the RCU grace period, but it
* may be reallocated. When using such allocators, we are
* responsible for ensuring the reference we get is to