* [PATCH] XArray: document that tags persist after storing new elements
@ 2026-08-19 6:57 Christoph Hellwig
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From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2026-08-19 6:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: willy, corbet; +Cc: skhan, linux-fsdevel, linux-mm, linux-doc
This is a very useful feature, document it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst b/Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst
index c6c91cbd0c3c..9a0d930a8c79 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst
@@ -127,6 +127,8 @@ by using xa_set_mark() and remove the mark from an entry by calling
xa_clear_mark(). You can ask whether any entry in the XArray has a
particular mark set by calling xa_marked(). Erasing an entry from the
XArray causes all marks associated with that entry to be cleared.
+Storing a new entry that replaces an existing entry keeps the marks
+associated with the index intact.
Setting or clearing a mark on any index of a multi-index entry will
affect all indices covered by that entry. Querying the mark on any
--
2.53.0
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