Loading Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.txt +1 −1 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ With this change, the rcu_dereference() is always within an RCU read-side critical section, which again would have suppressed the above lockdep-RCU splat. But in this particular case, we don't actually deference the pointer But in this particular case, we don't actually dereference the pointer returned from rcu_dereference(). Instead, that pointer is just compared to the cic pointer, which means that the rcu_dereference() can be replaced by rcu_access_pointer() as follows: Loading Loading
Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.txt +1 −1 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ With this change, the rcu_dereference() is always within an RCU read-side critical section, which again would have suppressed the above lockdep-RCU splat. But in this particular case, we don't actually deference the pointer But in this particular case, we don't actually dereference the pointer returned from rcu_dereference(). Instead, that pointer is just compared to the cic pointer, which means that the rcu_dereference() can be replaced by rcu_access_pointer() as follows: Loading
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: