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Re: [PATCH RFC] mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU

From "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH RFC] mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU
Date 2017-01-23 01:50 +0100
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 06:00:24PM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jan 2017, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 
> > Actually, slab is using RCU to provide type safety to those slab users
> > who request it.
> 
> Typesafety is a side effect. The main idea here is that the object can
> still be accessed in RCU sections after another processor frees the
> object. We guarantee that the object is not freed but it may be reused
> for another object within the RCU period.
> 
> Can we have a name that expresses all of that properly?

But of course!!!  "Type safety".  http://wiki.c2.com/?TypeSafe

							Thanx, Paul

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[PATCH RFC] mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-01-18 12:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH RFC] mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to  SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU willy@infradead.org - 2017-01-18 12:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH RFC] mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to  SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2017-01-19 01:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH RFC] mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to  SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-01-23 01:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH RFC] mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to  SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2017-01-25 17:50 +0100
          Re: [PATCH RFC] mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to  SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2017-01-25 18:10 +0100
            Re: [PATCH RFC] mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to  SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-01-25 21:10 +0100
              Re: [PATCH RFC] mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to  SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2017-01-25 23:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH RFC] mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to  SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-01-26 00:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH RFC] mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to  SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-01-19 01:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH RFC] mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to  SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> - 2017-01-25 21:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH RFC] mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to  SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2017-01-25 22:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH RFC] mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to  SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-01-25 23:40 +0100

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