On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 03:05:10PM -0800, [email protected] wrote: > From: Hui Su <[email protected]> > > This commit updates the documented API of call_rcu() to use the > rcu_callback_t typedef instead of the open-coded function definition. > > Signed-off-by: Hui Su <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]> > --- > Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst | 3 +-- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst > index fb3ff76..1a4723f 100644 > --- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst > +++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst > @@ -497,8 +497,7 @@ long -- there might be other high-priority work to be > done. > In such cases, one uses call_rcu() rather than synchronize_rcu(). > The call_rcu() API is as follows:: > > - void call_rcu(struct rcu_head * head, > - void (*func)(struct rcu_head *head)); > + void call_rcu(struct rcu_head *head, rcu_callback_t func);
Personally I much prefer the old form, because now I have to go look up rcu_callback_t to figure out wtf kind of signature is actually required.
