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diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/kref.rst b/Documentation/core-api/kref.rst index c61eea6f1bf2..8db9ff03d952 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/kref.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/kref.rst @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Adding reference counters (krefs) to kernel objects =================================================== :Author: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> -:Author: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> +:Author: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com> A lot of this was lifted from Greg Kroah-Hartman's 2004 OLS paper and presentation on krefs, which can be found at: @@ -321,3 +321,8 @@ rcu grace period after release_entry_rcu was called. That can be accomplished by using kfree_rcu(entry, rhead) as done above, or by calling synchronize_rcu() before using kfree, but note that synchronize_rcu() may sleep for a substantial amount of time. + +Functions and structures +======================== + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/kref.h |