linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm/slab: break up RCU readers on SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY

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Message-ID: <ZD2HlGwNkrrj+Odz@casper.infradead.org>
Date:   Mon, 17 Apr 2023 18:53:24 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>
Cc:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        paulmck@...nel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm/slab: break up RCU readers on
 SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU example code

On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 05:26:57PM +0000, SeongJae Park wrote:
> Hi Vlastimil,
> 
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 13:05:40 +0200 Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz> wrote:
> 
> > On 4/15/23 05:31, SeongJae Park wrote:
> > > The SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU example code snippet is having not tiny RCU
> > 
> > Since "tiny RCU" means something quite specific in the RCU world, it can be
> > confusing to read it in this sense. We could say e.g. "... snippet uses a
> > single RCU read-side critical section for retries"?
> 
> Looks much better, thank you for this suggestion!
> 
> > 
> > > read-side critical section.  'Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.rst' has
> > > similar example code snippet, and commit da82af04352b ("doc: Update and
> > > wordsmith rculist_nulls.rst") has broken it.
> > 
> > "has broken it" has quite different meaning than "has broken it up" :) I
> > guess we could just add the "up", unless someone has an even better wording.
> 
> Good point, thank you for your suggestion!
> 
> I will apply above suggestion on the next spin.

For the last one, perhaps changing the tense would have more clarity:

similar example code snippet, and commit da82af04352b ("doc: Update and
wordsmith rculist_nulls.rst") broke it up.