From: "Zi Yan" <ziy@nvidia.com>
To: "Karl Mehltretter" <kmehltretter@gmail.com>,
"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox" <willy@infradead.org>,
"Shuah Khan" <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
<linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
<linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] docs: xarray: Fix xas_try_split() name
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2026 08:28:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DKVH0NGOIYZP.3MGUBJ9WWUTCG@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260822121651.1559-7-kmehltretter@gmail.com>
On Sat Aug 22, 2026 at 8:16 AM EDT, Karl Mehltretter wrote:
> The iterative split helper is xas_try_split(), not
> xas_try_alloc().
>
> Fixes: 3fec86f8aa8c ("xarray: add xas_try_split() to split a multi-index entry")
> Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol
> Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
> ---
> Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Thanks.
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst b/Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst
> index c6c91cbd0c3ce..3d2b20c05a937 100644
> --- a/Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst
> @@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ entry at every index to ``NULL`` and dissolve the tie. A multi-index
> entry can be split into entries occupying smaller ranges by calling
> xas_split_alloc() without the xa_lock held, followed by taking the lock
> and calling xas_split() or calling xas_try_split() with xa_lock. The
> -difference between xas_split_alloc()+xas_split() and xas_try_alloc() is
> +difference between xas_split_alloc()+xas_split() and xas_try_split() is
> that xas_split_alloc() + xas_split() split the entry from the original
> order to the new order in one shot uniformly, whereas xas_try_split()
> iteratively splits the entry containing the index non-uniformly.
--
Best Regards,
Yan, Zi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-22 12:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-22 12:16 [PATCH 0/7] docs: core-api: Fix stale function names and a broken example Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-22 12:16 ` [PATCH 6/7] docs: xarray: Fix xas_try_split() name Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-22 12:28 ` Zi Yan [this message]
2026-08-22 17:30 ` Randy Dunlap
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