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[v7,06/10] maple_tree: Update the documentation of maple tree

Message ID 20231027033845.90608-7-zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series Introduce __mt_dup() to improve the performance of fork() | expand

Commit Message

Peng Zhang Oct. 27, 2023, 3:38 a.m. UTC 
Introduce the new interface mtree_dup() in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
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 Documentation/core-api/maple_tree.rst | 4 ++++
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diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/maple_tree.rst b/Documentation/core-api/maple_tree.rst
index 96f3d5f076b5..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()