Commit 5326caa7 authored by SeongJae Park's avatar SeongJae Park Committed by Paul E. McKenney

Docs/RCU/rculist_nulls: Specify type of the object in examples

The type of 'obj' in example code of rculist_nulls.rst is implicit.
Provide the specific type of it before the example code.
Suggested-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rcu/43943609-f80c-4b6a-9844-994eef800757@paulmck-laptop/Signed-off-by: default avatarSeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
parent 674dd365
......@@ -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
-------------------
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