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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.rst b/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.rst index 4d6f077552ed..479cedfec446 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.rst +++ b/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.rst @@ -18,7 +18,16 @@ to solve following problem. Without 'nulls', a typical RCU linked list managing objects which are allocated with SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU kmem_cache can use the following -algorithms: +algorithms. Following examples assume 'obj' is a pointer to such +objects, which is having below type. + +:: + + struct object { + struct hlist_node obj_node; + atomic_t refcnt; + unsigned int key; + }; 1) Lookup algorithm ------------------- @@ -144,6 +153,9 @@ the beginning. If the object was moved to the same chain, then the reader doesn't care: It might occasionally scan the list again without harm. +Note that using hlist_nulls means the type of 'obj_node' field of +'struct object' becomes 'struct hlist_nulls_node'. + 1) lookup algorithm ------------------- |