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SubjectRe: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 10/12] block: Substitute rcu_access_pointer() for rcu_dereference_raw()
On Mon, Feb 17 2014, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> (Trivial patch.)
>
> If the code is looking at the RCU-protected pointer itself, but not
> dereferencing it, the rcu_dereference() functions can be downgraded to
> rcu_access_pointer(). This commit makes this downgrade in blkg_destroy()
> and ioc_destroy_icq(), both of which simply compare the RCU-protected
> pointer against another pointer with no dereferencing.

Thanks Paul, applied.

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Jens Axboe



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