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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 19:58:10 -0800
From: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	rcu@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
	Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraj.iitr10@...il.com>,
	Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
	Zqiang <qiang.zhang1211@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 7/8] doc: Clarify use of slab constructors and SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>

This commit explicitly states that you should initialize any locks to
be used by readers in your SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU constructor.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
---
 Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst
index 246ce0d0b4d1..872ac665223f 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst
@@ -963,8 +963,8 @@ unfortunately any spinlock in a ``SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU`` object must be
 initialized after each and every call to kmem_cache_alloc(), which renders
 reference-free spinlock acquisition completely unsafe.  Therefore, when
 using ``SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU``, make proper use of a reference counter.
-(Those willing to use a kmem_cache constructor may also use locking,
-including cache-friendly sequence locking.)
+(Those willing to initialize their locks in a kmem_cache constructor
+may also use locking, including cache-friendly sequence locking.)
 
 With traditional reference counting -- such as that implemented by the
 kref library in Linux -- there is typically code that runs when the last
-- 
2.43.0


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