linux-kernel - [PATCH 12/13] doc: Update whatisRCU.rst

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Message-Id: <20230201150954.409693-3-urezki@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed,  1 Feb 2023 16:09:53 +0100
From:   "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@...il.com>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, RCU <rcu@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Cc:     Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>,
        Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@...y.com>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@...bit.com>,
        Bryan Tan <bryantan@...are.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Bob Pearson <rpearsonhpe@...il.com>,
        Ariel Levkovich <lariel@...dia.com>,
        Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
Subject: [PATCH 12/13] doc: Update whatisRCU.rst

The kfree_rcu() macro is deprecated. Rename it to the
kfree_rcu_mightsleep() in this documentation.

Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@...il.com>
---
 Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst
index 2c5563a91998..8eddef28d3a1 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst
@@ -597,10 +597,10 @@ to avoid having to write your own callback::
 If the occasional sleep is permitted, the single-argument form may
 be used, omitting the rcu_head structure from struct foo.
 
-	kfree_rcu(old_fp);
+	kfree_rcu_mightsleep(old_fp);
 
-This variant of kfree_rcu() almost never blocks, but might do so by
-invoking synchronize_rcu() in response to memory-allocation failure.
+This variant almost never blocks, but might do so by invoking
+synchronize_rcu() in response to memory-allocation failure.
 
 Again, see checklist.rst for additional rules governing the use of RCU.
 
-- 
2.30.2