+ maple_tree-update-the-documentation-of-maple-tree.patch added to mm-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

The patch titled
     Subject: maple_tree: update the documentation of maple tree
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     maple_tree-update-the-documentation-of-maple-tree.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/maple_tree-update-the-documentation-of-maple-tree.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com>
Subject: maple_tree: update the documentation of maple tree
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 11:38:41 +0800

Introduce the new interface mtree_dup() in the documentation.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231027033845.90608-7-zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 Documentation/core-api/maple_tree.rst |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/Documentation/core-api/maple_tree.rst~maple_tree-update-the-documentation-of-maple-tree
+++ a/Documentation/core-api/maple_tree.rst
@@ -81,6 +81,9 @@ section.
 Sometimes it is necessary to ensure the next call to store to a maple tree does
 not allocate memory, please see :ref:`maple-tree-advanced-api` for this use case.
 
+You can use mtree_dup() to duplicate an entire maple tree. It is a more
+efficient way than inserting all elements one by one into a new tree.
+
 Finally, you can remove all entries from a maple tree by calling
 mtree_destroy().  If the maple tree entries are pointers, you may wish to free
 the entries first.
@@ -112,6 +115,7 @@ Takes ma_lock internally:
  * mtree_insert()
  * mtree_insert_range()
  * mtree_erase()
+ * mtree_dup()
  * mtree_destroy()
  * mt_set_in_rcu()
  * mt_clear_in_rcu()
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com are

maple_tree-add-mt_free_one-and-mt_attr-helpers.patch
maple_tree-introduce-mtreemas_lock_nested.patch
maple_tree-introduce-interfaces-__mt_dup-and-mtree_dup.patch
radix-tree-test-suite-align-kmem_cache_alloc_bulk-with-kernel-behavior.patch
maple_tree-add-test-for-mtree_dup.patch
maple_tree-update-the-documentation-of-maple-tree.patch
maple_tree-skip-other-tests-when-bench-is-enabled.patch
maple_tree-update-check_forking-and-bench_forking.patch
maple_tree-preserve-the-tree-attributes-when-destroying-maple-tree.patch
fork-use-__mt_dup-to-duplicate-maple-tree-in-dup_mmap.patch