linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [1/9] Add rcustring ADT for RCU protected strings v2

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Date:	Fri, 8 Jan 2010 15:50:44 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/9] Add rcustring ADT for RCU protected strings v2

On Tue,  5 Jan 2010 03:15:26 +0100 (CET)
Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:

> +extern char *alloc_rcu_string(int size, gfp_t gfp);
> +extern void free_rcu_string(const char *string);
> +
> +/*
> + * size must be the same as alloc_rcu_string, don't
> + * use strlen on str!
> + */
> +extern char *access_rcu_string(char **str, int size, gfp_t gfp);

I think better names would be rcu_string_alloc(), rcu_string_free() and
rcu_string_access().

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