Re: [PATCH 6/7] docs: xarray: Fix xas_try_split() name

From: Randy Dunlap

Date: Sat Aug 22 2026 - 13:31:04 EST




On 8/22/26 5:16 AM, Karl Mehltretter wrote:
> The iterative split helper is xas_try_split(), not
> xas_try_alloc().
>
> Fixes: 3fec86f8aa8c ("xarray: add xas_try_split() to split a multi-index entry")
> Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol
> Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks.

> ---
> Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst b/Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst
> index c6c91cbd0c3ce..3d2b20c05a937 100644
> --- a/Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst
> @@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ entry at every index to ``NULL`` and dissolve the tie. A multi-index
> entry can be split into entries occupying smaller ranges by calling
> xas_split_alloc() without the xa_lock held, followed by taking the lock
> and calling xas_split() or calling xas_try_split() with xa_lock. The
> -difference between xas_split_alloc()+xas_split() and xas_try_alloc() is
> +difference between xas_split_alloc()+xas_split() and xas_try_split() is
> that xas_split_alloc() + xas_split() split the entry from the original
> order to the new order in one shot uniformly, whereas xas_try_split()
> iteratively splits the entry containing the index non-uniformly.

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~Randy