linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs/rcu: update the api of call

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Date:   Thu, 15 Oct 2020 10:38:16 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
To:     Hui Su <sh_def@....com>
Cc:     josh@...htriplett.org, rostedt@...dmis.org,
        mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com, jiangshanlai@...il.com,
        joel@...lfernandes.org, corbet@....net, rcu@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs/rcu: update the api of call_rcu()

On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 10:13:34PM +0800, Hui Su wrote:
> update the api of call_rcu()
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hui Su <sh_def@....com>

Good point, the typedef is more compact.  Queued, thank you!

							Thanx, Paul

> ---
>  Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst
> index c7f147b8034f..aa7d5ed20da5 100644
> --- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst
> @@ -497,8 +497,7 @@ long -- there might be other high-priority work to be done.
>  In such cases, one uses call_rcu() rather than synchronize_rcu().
>  The call_rcu() API is as follows::
>  
> -	void call_rcu(struct rcu_head * head,
> -		      void (*func)(struct rcu_head *head));
> +	void call_rcu(struct rcu_head *head, rcu_callback_t func);
>  
>  This function invokes func(head) after a grace period has elapsed.
>  This invocation might happen from either softirq or process context,
> -- 
> 2.25.1
> 
>