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>
diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
index a1a359b..7f8f962 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
@@ -2340,7 +2340,7 @@
jbd2_journal_head_cache = kmem_cache_create("jbd2_journal_head",
sizeof(struct journal_head),
0, /* offset */
- SLAB_TEMPORARY | SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU,
+ SLAB_TEMPORARY | SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU,
NULL); /* ctor */
retval = 0;
if (!jbd2_journal_head_cache) {