From 439c5e02d59659876e1a2cf019c55e419adab195 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo Bonzini Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 15:00:12 +0100 Subject: rcu: add g_free_rcu This simplifies calling g_free from an RCU callback. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- docs/rcu.txt | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/rcu.txt') diff --git a/docs/rcu.txt b/docs/rcu.txt index 61752b93ab..21ecb8106c 100644 --- a/docs/rcu.txt +++ b/docs/rcu.txt @@ -120,12 +120,15 @@ The core RCU API is small: void call_rcu(T *p, void (*func)(T *p), field-name); + void g_free_rcu(T *p, + field-name); - call_rcu1 is typically used through this macro, in the common case - where the "struct rcu_head" is the first field in the struct. In - the above case, one could have written simply: + call_rcu1 is typically used through these macro, in the common case + where the "struct rcu_head" is the first field in the struct. If + the callback function is g_free, in particular, g_free_rcu can be + used. In the above case, one could have written simply: - call_rcu(foo_reclaim, g_free, rcu); + g_free_rcu(foo_reclaim, rcu); typeof(*p) atomic_rcu_read(p); -- cgit v1.2.3