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/net/llc/llc_sap.c b/net/llc/llc_sap.c
index 5404d0d..63b6ab0 100644
--- a/net/llc/llc_sap.c
+++ b/net/llc/llc_sap.c
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@
again:
sk_nulls_for_each_rcu(rc, node, laddr_hb) {
if (llc_dgram_match(sap, laddr, rc)) {
- /* Extra checks required by SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU */
+ /* Extra checks required by SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU */
if (unlikely(!atomic_inc_not_zero(&rc->sk_refcnt)))
goto again;
if (unlikely(llc_sk(rc)->sap != sap ||