netdev - [PATCH] rhashtable: Documentation tweak

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Date:   Tue, 19 Sep 2017 12:41:37 +0200
From:   Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>
To:     Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] rhashtable: Documentation tweak

Clarify that rhashtable_walk_{stop,start} will not reset the iterator to
the beginning of the hash table.  Confusion between rhashtable_walk_enter
and rhashtable_walk_start has already lead to a bug.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>
---
 lib/rhashtable.c | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/rhashtable.c b/lib/rhashtable.c
index 707ca5d677c6..ddd7dde87c3c 100644
--- a/lib/rhashtable.c
+++ b/lib/rhashtable.c
@@ -735,9 +735,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rhashtable_walk_exit);
  * rhashtable_walk_start - Start a hash table walk
  * @iter:	Hash table iterator
  *
- * Start a hash table walk.  Note that we take the RCU lock in all
- * cases including when we return an error.  So you must always call
- * rhashtable_walk_stop to clean up.
+ * Start a hash table walk at the current iterator position.  Note that we take
+ * the RCU lock in all cases including when we return an error.  So you must
+ * always call rhashtable_walk_stop to clean up.
  *
  * Returns zero if successful.
  *
@@ -846,7 +846,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rhashtable_walk_next);
  * rhashtable_walk_stop - Finish a hash table walk
  * @iter:	Hash table iterator
  *
- * Finish a hash table walk.
+ * Finish a hash table walk.  Does not reset the iterator to the start of the
+ * hash table.
  */
 void rhashtable_walk_stop(struct rhashtable_iter *iter)
 	__releases(RCU)
-- 
2.13.3