From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, willy@infradead.org
Cc: skhan@linuxfoundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] XArray: document that tags persist after storing new elements
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:29:50 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ik4qger5.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260819065714.1358822-1-hch@lst.de>
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> writes:
> 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.
>
Applied, thanks.
jon
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2026-08-19 6:57 [PATCH] XArray: document that tags persist after storing new elements Christoph Hellwig
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