mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU

A group of Linux kernel hackers reported chasing a bug that resulted
from their assumption that SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU provided an existence
guarantee, that is, that no block from such a slab would be reallocated
during an RCU read-side critical section.  Of course, that is not the
case.  Instead, SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU only prevents freeing of an entire
slab of blocks.

However, there is a phrase for this, namely "type safety".  This commit
therefore renames SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU in order
to avoid future instances of this sort of confusion.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
[ paulmck: Add comments mentioning the old name, as requested by Eric
  Dumazet, in order to help people familiar with the old name find
  the new one. ]
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/mm/slob.c b/mm/slob.c
index eac04d4357ec..1bae78d71096 100644
--- a/mm/slob.c
+++ b/mm/slob.c
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ static inline void clear_slob_page_free(struct page *sp)
 
 /*
  * struct slob_rcu is inserted at the tail of allocated slob blocks, which
- * were created with a SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU slab. slob_rcu is used to free
+ * were created with a SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU slab. slob_rcu is used to free
  * the block using call_rcu.
  */
 struct slob_rcu {
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ksize);
 
 int __kmem_cache_create(struct kmem_cache *c, unsigned long flags)
 {
-	if (flags & SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU) {
+	if (flags & SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU) {
 		/* leave room for rcu footer at the end of object */
 		c->size += sizeof(struct slob_rcu);
 	}
@@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ static void kmem_rcu_free(struct rcu_head *head)
 void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *c, void *b)
 {
 	kmemleak_free_recursive(b, c->flags);
-	if (unlikely(c->flags & SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU)) {
+	if (unlikely(c->flags & SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU)) {
 		struct slob_rcu *slob_rcu;
 		slob_rcu = b + (c->size - sizeof(struct slob_rcu));
 		slob_rcu->size = c->size;