Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Nov 2020 13:21:33 +0100 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/4] doc: Present the role of READ_ONCE() |
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On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 03:05:07PM -0800, paulmck@kernel.org wrote: > From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> > > This commit adds an explanation of the special cases where READ_ONCE() > may be used in place of a member of the rcu_dereference() family.
I am confused, there is no actual difference between rcu_dereference() and READ_ONCE() today. So we _may_ use READ_ONCE() at all times.
Now granted, we probably don't want that, but that does leave me somewhat confused vs the wording here.
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