Re: [PATCH] Documentation: RCU: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family - part 2/2

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Sat, Jun 27, 2026 at 11:06:06AM +0200, Manuel Ebner wrote:
> Update Documentation/RCU/* to reflect new type-aware kmalloc-family
> as suggested in commit 2932ba8d9c99 ("slab: Introduce kmalloc_obj()
> and family")
> 
> p = kmalloc(...);
>  -> p = kmalloc_obj(...);
> 
> Signed-off-by: Manuel Ebner <manuelebner@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Queued for further review, thank you!!!

							Thanx, Paul

> ---
> A similar patch sent by me has been applied. Back then I wasn't familiar
> enough to convert all *alloc(*. That's why this is " - part 2/2".
> Part 1: f61bf5fdf77d ("Documentation: RCU: adopt new coding style of
>                        type-aware kmalloc-family")
> ---
>  Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.rst | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.rst b/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.rst
> index 2524dcdadde2..5bc3785ebfc2 100644
> --- a/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.rst
> @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ precautions.  To see this, consider the following code fragment::
>  	{
>  		struct foo *p;
>  
> -		p = kmalloc(...);
> +		p = kmalloc_obj(*p);
>  		if (p == NULL)
>  			deal_with_it();
>  		p->a = 42;  /* Each field in its own cache line. */
> @@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ Then one approach is to use locking, for example, as follows::
>  	{
>  		struct foo *p;
>  
> -		p = kmalloc(...);
> +		p = kmalloc_obj(*p);
>  		if (p == NULL)
>  			deal_with_it();
>  		spin_lock(&p->lock);
> -- 
> 2.54.0
>