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maple_tree: update the documentation of maple tree
Introduce the new interface mtree_dup() in the documentation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231027033845.90608-7-zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Documentation/core-api/maple_tree.rst

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Sometimes it is necessary to ensure the next call to store to a maple tree does
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not allocate memory, please see :ref:`maple-tree-advanced-api` for this use case.
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You can use mtree_dup() to duplicate an entire maple tree. It is a more
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efficient way than inserting all elements one by one into a new tree.
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Finally, you can remove all entries from a maple tree by calling
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mtree_destroy(). If the maple tree entries are pointers, you may wish to free
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the entries first.
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* mtree_insert()
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* mtree_insert_range()
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* mtree_erase()
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* mtree_dup()
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* mtree_destroy()
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* mt_set_in_rcu()
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* mt_clear_in_rcu()

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