Re: [PATCH 6/7] docs: xarray: Fix xas_try_split() name

"Zi Yan" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel,org.kernel.vger.linux-doc,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kvack.linux-mm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat Aug 22, 2026 at 8:16 AM EDT, Karl Mehltretter wrote:
> The iterative split helper is xas_try_split(), not
> xas_try_alloc().
>
> Fixes: 3fec86f8aa8c ("xarray: add xas_try_split() to split a multi-index entry")
> Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol
> Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <[email protected]>
> ---
>  Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Thanks.

Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <[email protected]>

>
> diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst b/Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst
> index c6c91cbd0c3ce..3d2b20c05a937 100644
> --- a/Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst
> @@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ entry at every index to ``NULL`` and dissolve the tie.  A multi-index
>  entry can be split into entries occupying smaller ranges by calling
>  xas_split_alloc() without the xa_lock held, followed by taking the lock
>  and calling xas_split() or calling xas_try_split() with xa_lock. The
> -difference between xas_split_alloc()+xas_split() and xas_try_alloc() is
> +difference between xas_split_alloc()+xas_split() and xas_try_split() is
>  that xas_split_alloc() + xas_split() split the entry from the original
>  order to the new order in one shot uniformly, whereas xas_try_split()
>  iteratively splits the entry containing the index non-uniformly.




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Best Regards,
Yan, Zi
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