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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
To: rcu@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@meta.com,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>,
	"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH rcu 5/7] Docs/RCU/rculist_nulls: Specify type of the object in examples
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2023 11:01:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230717180110.1097362-5-paulmck@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee7a3e6b-eb1b-4413-b5c3-83b22f7271dd@paulmck-laptop>

From: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>

The type of 'obj' in example code of rculist_nulls.rst is implicit.
Provide the specific type of it before the example code.

Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rcu/43943609-f80c-4b6a-9844-994eef800757@paulmck-laptop/
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
---
 Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.rst | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.rst b/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.rst
index 4d6f077552ed..479cedfec446 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.rst
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.rst
@@ -18,7 +18,16 @@ to solve following problem.
 
 Without 'nulls', a typical RCU linked list managing objects which are
 allocated with SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU kmem_cache can use the following
-algorithms:
+algorithms.  Following examples assume 'obj' is a pointer to such
+objects, which is having below type.
+
+::
+
+  struct object {
+    struct hlist_node obj_node;
+    atomic_t refcnt;
+    unsigned int key;
+  };
 
 1) Lookup algorithm
 -------------------
@@ -144,6 +153,9 @@ the beginning. If the object was moved to the same chain,
 then the reader doesn't care: It might occasionally
 scan the list again without harm.
 
+Note that using hlist_nulls means the type of 'obj_node' field of
+'struct object' becomes 'struct hlist_nulls_node'.
+
 
 1) lookup algorithm
 -------------------
-- 
2.40.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-07-17 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-17 18:01 [PATCH rcu 0/7] Documentation updates for v6.6 Paul E. McKenney
2023-07-17 18:01 ` [PATCH rcu 1/7] documentation/rcu: Fix typo Paul E. McKenney
2023-07-17 18:01 ` [PATCH rcu 2/7] docs/RCU: Add the missing rcu_read_unlock() Paul E. McKenney
2023-07-17 18:01 ` [PATCH rcu 3/7] Docs/RCU/rculist_nulls: Fix trivial coding style Paul E. McKenney
2023-07-17 18:01 ` [PATCH rcu 4/7] Docs/RCU/rculist_nulls: Assign 'obj' before use from the examples Paul E. McKenney
2023-07-17 18:01 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2023-07-17 18:01 ` [PATCH rcu 6/7] Docs/RCU/rculist_nulls: Fix hlist_[nulls]_head field names of 'obj' Paul E. McKenney
2023-07-17 18:01 ` [PATCH rcu 7/7] Docs/RCU/rculist_nulls: Fix text about atomic_set_release() Paul E. McKenney

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