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| author | André Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu> | 2015-09-08 01:01:14 -0300 |
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| committer | André Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu> | 2015-09-08 01:01:14 -0300 |
| commit | e5fd91f1ef340da553f7a79da9540c3db711c937 (patch) | |
| tree | b11842027dc6641da63f4bcc524f8678263304a3 /Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt | |
| parent | 2a9b0348e685a63d97486f6749622b61e9e3292f (diff) | |
Linux-libre 4.2-gnu
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt index 88dfce182..5746b0c77 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt @@ -256,7 +256,9 @@ rcu_dereference() If you are going to be fetching multiple fields from the RCU-protected structure, using the local variable is of course preferred. Repeated rcu_dereference() calls look - ugly and incur unnecessary overhead on Alpha CPUs. + ugly, do not guarantee that the same pointer will be returned + if an update happened while in the critical section, and incur + unnecessary overhead on Alpha CPUs. Note that the value returned by rcu_dereference() is valid only within the enclosing RCU read-side critical section. @@ -879,9 +881,7 @@ SRCU: Initialization/cleanup All: lockdep-checked RCU-protected pointer access - rcu_access_index rcu_access_pointer - rcu_dereference_index_check rcu_dereference_raw rcu_lockdep_assert rcu_sleep_check |