Introduce the new interface mtree_dup() in the documentation. Signed-off-by: Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/core-api/maple_tree.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/maple_tree.rst b/Documentation/core-api/maple_tree.rst index 96f3d5f076b5..ccdd1615cf97 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/maple_tree.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/maple_tree.rst @@ -81,6 +81,9 @@ section. Sometimes it is necessary to ensure the next call to store to a maple tree does not allocate memory, please see :ref:`maple-tree-advanced-api` for this use case. +You can use mtree_dup() to duplicate an entire maple tree. It is a more +efficient way than inserting all elements one by one into a new tree. + Finally, you can remove all entries from a maple tree by calling mtree_destroy(). If the maple tree entries are pointers, you may wish to free the entries first. @@ -112,6 +115,7 @@ Takes ma_lock internally: * mtree_insert() * mtree_insert_range() * mtree_erase() + * mtree_dup() * mtree_destroy() * mt_set_in_rcu() * mt_clear_in_rcu() -- 2.20.1
