Re: [PATCH] rcu: undeclared variable used in documentation

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Wed Feb 01 2006 - 23:07:09 EST


On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 03:00:43AM +0200, Baruch Even wrote:
>
> The RCU documentation uses an fp variable which is not declared in the code
> snippets. Use the new_fp variable instead.

Good catch!!!

Thanx, Paul

Acked-by: <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-Off-By: Baruch Even <baruch@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> Index: htcp-abc/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
> ===================================================================
> --- htcp-abc.orig/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
> +++ htcp-abc/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
> @@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ uses of RCU may be found in listRCU.txt,
> struct foo *new_fp;
> struct foo *old_fp;
>
> - new_fp = kmalloc(sizeof(*fp), GFP_KERNEL);
> + new_fp = kmalloc(sizeof(*new_fp), GFP_KERNEL);
> spin_lock(&foo_mutex);
> old_fp = gbl_foo;
> *new_fp = *old_fp;
> @@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ The foo_update_a() function might then b
> struct foo *new_fp;
> struct foo *old_fp;
>
> - new_fp = kmalloc(sizeof(*fp), GFP_KERNEL);
> + new_fp = kmalloc(sizeof(*new_fp), GFP_KERNEL);
> spin_lock(&foo_mutex);
> old_fp = gbl_foo;
> *new_fp = *old_fp;
> -
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