Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Feb 2019 10:30:09 +0100 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] tools/memory-model: Remove (dep ; rfi) from ppo |
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On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 09:55:17AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > But if you know of any code in the Linux kernel that needs to compare > pointers, one of which might be in the process of being freed, please > do point me at it.
I'm having the utmost difficulty of understanding why that would be a problem. It's just a value. Freeing memory does not affect the actual memory or any pointers to it.
*confusion*
None of this makes any kind of sense.
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