On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 12:07 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 09:04:47AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > > > Not clear why we need to change this very fine name ? > > > > SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU was only used by few of us, we know damn well what > > it means. > > > > Consider we wont be able to change it in various web pages / archives / > > changelogs. > > The reason I proposed this change is that I ran into some people last > week who had burned some months learning that this very fine flag > provides only type safety, not identity safety. > > Other proposals? Bung hunting requires scrapping git log, in particular in areas touching RCU (not exactly trivial stuff :) :) :) ) git log | grep SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU A Google search on SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU finds ~4600 results. If we rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU by XXXXXXXX, someone trying to see prior patches or articles about XXXXXXXX mistakes will find nothing. So please leave comments giving the old name ( SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU ) and save time for future hackers. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
