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Message-Id: <20231009090320.64565-7-zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2023 17:03:16 +0800
From: Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@...edance.com>
To: Liam.Howlett@...cle.com, corbet@....net, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
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Subject: [PATCH v4 06/10] maple_tree: Update the documentation of maple tree
Introduce the new interface mtree_dup() in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@...edance.com>
---
Documentation/core-api/maple_tree.rst | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/maple_tree.rst b/Documentation/core-api/maple_tree.rst
index 45defcf15da7..285e2d2b21ae 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/maple_tree.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/maple_tree.rst
@@ -81,6 +81,9 @@ section.
Sometimes it is necessary to ensure the next call to store to a maple tree does
not allocate memory, please see :ref:`maple-tree-advanced-api` for this use case.
+You can use mtree_dup() to duplicate an entire maple tree. It is a more
+efficient way than inserting all elements one by one into a new tree.
+
Finally, you can remove all entries from a maple tree by calling
mtree_destroy(). If the maple tree entries are pointers, you may wish to free
the entries first.
@@ -112,6 +115,7 @@ Takes ma_lock internally:
* mtree_insert()
* mtree_insert_range()
* mtree_erase()
+ * mtree_dup()
* mtree_destroy()
* mt_set_in_rcu()
* mt_clear_in_rcu()
--
2.20.1
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