linux/include
Paul E. McKenney 5f0d5a3ae7 mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU
A group of Linux kernel hackers reported chasing a bug that resulted
from their assumption that SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU provided an existence
guarantee, that is, that no block from such a slab would be reallocated
during an RCU read-side critical section.  Of course, that is not the
case.  Instead, SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU only prevents freeing of an entire
slab of blocks.

However, there is a phrase for this, namely "type safety".  This commit
therefore renames SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU in order
to avoid future instances of this sort of confusion.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
[ paulmck: Add comments mentioning the old name, as requested by Eric
  Dumazet, in order to help people familiar with the old name find
  the new one. ]
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
2017-04-18 11:42:36 -07:00
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acpi Merge branches 'acpi-bus', 'acpi-sleep' and 'acpi-processor' 2017-02-20 14:28:03 +01:00
asm-generic mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
clocksource
crypto crypto: api - Add crypto_requires_off helper 2017-02-27 18:09:39 +08:00
drm sched/headers: Prepare to remove the <linux/mm_types.h> dependency from <linux/sched.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:37 +01:00
dt-bindings scripts/spelling.txt: add "overide" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-03-09 17:01:09 -08:00
keys KEYS: Differentiate uses of rcu_dereference_key() and user_key_payload() 2017-03-02 10:09:00 +11:00
kvm
linux mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU 2017-04-18 11:42:36 -07:00
math-emu
media media fixes for v4.11-rc2 2017-03-09 15:50:56 -08:00
memory
misc
net mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU 2017-04-18 11:42:36 -07:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma sched/headers: Prepare to remove <linux/cred.h> inclusion from <linux/sched.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:31 +01:00
rxrpc
scsi scsi: remove scsi_execute_req_flags 2017-02-23 16:57:36 -05:00
soc ARC updates for 4.11 rc1 2017-02-22 10:33:53 -08:00
sound sched/headers: Prepare to remove spurious <linux/sched.h> inclusion dependencies 2017-03-02 08:42:41 +01:00
target Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
trace There was some breakage with the changes for jump labels in the 4.11 merge 2017-03-07 09:37:28 -08:00
uapi userfaultfd: non-cooperative: rollback userfaultfd_exit 2017-03-09 17:01:09 -08:00
video
xen Merge branch 'stable/for-linus-4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/swiotlb 2017-03-07 10:23:17 -08:00
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