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| author | Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com> | 2023-10-27 11:38:41 +0800 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2023-12-10 16:51:32 -0800 |
| commit | 9bc1d3cdb904170214456bca96c4924f28522ab8 (patch) | |
| tree | b5a82989160074409fbd93695a41b8350bafb206 /Documentation/core-api | |
| parent | a2587a7e8d37885dc063255f5400a66299b42e48 (diff) | |
maple_tree: update the documentation of maple tree
Introduce the new interface mtree_dup() in the documentation.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231027033845.90608-7-zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/core-api')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/maple_tree.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
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() |