From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tri Vo <trong@android.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] idr: Document calling context for IDA APIs mustn't use locks
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 18:19:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200910161902.GB1180022@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200910055246.2297797-1-swboyd@chromium.org>
On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 10:52:45PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> The documentation for these functions indicates that callers don't need
> to hold a lock while calling them, but that documentation is only in one
> place under "IDA Usage". Let's state the same information on each IDA
> function so that it's clear what the calling context requires.
> Furthermore, let's document ida_simple_get() with the same information
> so that callers know how this API works.
Thank you for this, I always have to go look it up too...
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-10 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-10 5:52 Stephen Boyd
2020-09-10 5:52 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] idr: Document that ida_simple_{get,remove}() are deprecated Stephen Boyd
2020-09-10 16:19 ` Greg KH [this message]
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