In case 1, it passes down the BLACK color from G to p and u, and maintains the color of n. By doing so, it maintains the black height of the sub-tree.
While in the comment, it marks the color of n to BLACK. This is a typo and not consistents with the code. This patch fixs this typo in comment. Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <weiy...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- lib/rbtree.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/rbtree.c b/lib/rbtree.c index 65f4eff..c16c81a 100644 --- a/lib/rbtree.c +++ b/lib/rbtree.c @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ __rb_insert(struct rb_node *node, struct rb_root *root, * / \ / \ * p u --> P U * / / - * n N + * n n * * However, since g's parent might be red, and * 4) does not allow this, we need to recurse -- 1.7.9.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/