From: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, RCU <rcu@vger.kernel.org>,
"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>,
Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>,
Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@codeaurora.org>,
Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Theodore Y . Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>,
Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@sonymobile.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2] rcu: Fix description of kvfree_rcu()
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 10:20:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211201092053.2000-1-urezki@gmail.com> (raw)
The passed "ptr" parameter might be wrongly interpreted
therefore rephrase it to prevent people from being confused.
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
---
include/linux/rcupdate.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index 88b42eb46406..9d7df8d36af0 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -924,7 +924,7 @@ static inline notrace void rcu_read_unlock_sched_notrace(void)
*
* kvfree_rcu(ptr);
*
- * where @ptr is a pointer to kvfree().
+ * where @ptr is the pointer to be freed by kvfree().
*
* Please note, head-less way of freeing is permitted to
* use from a context that has to follow might_sleep()
--
2.30.2
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2021-12-01 9:20 Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) [this message]
2021-12-01 14:37 ` [PATCH v2] rcu: Fix description of kvfree_rcu() Paul E. McKenney
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