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diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/maple_tree.rst b/Documentation/core-api/maple_tree.rst index 45defcf15da7..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() @@ -175,7 +179,7 @@ will return the previous entry which occurs before the entry at index. mas_find() will find the first entry which exists at or above index on the first call, and the next entry from every subsequent calls. -mas_find_rev() will find the fist entry which exists at or below the last on +mas_find_rev() will find the first entry which exists at or below the last on the first call, and the previous entry from every subsequent calls. If the user needs to yield the lock during an operation, then the maple state |