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* [PATCH] Documentation: RCU: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family - part 2/2
@ 2026-06-27  9:06 Manuel Ebner
  2026-06-28 16:13 ` Paul E. McKenney
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Manuel Ebner @ 2026-06-27  9:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Paul E . McKenney, Frederic Weisbecker, Neeraj Upadhyay,
	Joel Fernandes, Josh Triplett, Boqun Feng, Uladzislau Rezki,
	Steven Rostedt, Mathieu Desnoyers, Lai Jiangshan, Zqiang,
	Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan, open list:DOCUMENTATION, open list,
	Kees Cook
  Cc: Manuel Ebner

Update Documentation/RCU/* to reflect new type-aware kmalloc-family
as suggested in commit 2932ba8d9c99 ("slab: Introduce kmalloc_obj()
and family")

p = kmalloc(...);
 -> p = kmalloc_obj(...);

Signed-off-by: Manuel Ebner <manuelebner@mailbox.org>
---
A similar patch sent by me has been applied. Back then I wasn't familiar
enough to convert all *alloc(*. That's why this is " - part 2/2".
Part 1: f61bf5fdf77d ("Documentation: RCU: adopt new coding style of
                       type-aware kmalloc-family")
---
 Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.rst | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.rst b/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.rst
index 2524dcdadde2..5bc3785ebfc2 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.rst
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.rst
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ precautions.  To see this, consider the following code fragment::
 	{
 		struct foo *p;
 
-		p = kmalloc(...);
+		p = kmalloc_obj(*p);
 		if (p == NULL)
 			deal_with_it();
 		p->a = 42;  /* Each field in its own cache line. */
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ Then one approach is to use locking, for example, as follows::
 	{
 		struct foo *p;
 
-		p = kmalloc(...);
+		p = kmalloc_obj(*p);
 		if (p == NULL)
 			deal_with_it();
 		spin_lock(&p->lock);
-- 
2.54.0


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