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Paul E. McKenney authored
This patch uses the rcu_assign_pointer() API to eliminate a number of explicit memory barriers from the SysV IPC code that uses RCU. It also restructures the ipc_ids structure so that the array size is stored in the same memory block as the array itself (see the new struct ipc_id_ary). This prevents the race that the earlier code was subject to, where a reader could see a mismatch between the size and the actual array. With the size stored with the array, the possibility of mismatch is eliminated -- with out the need for careful ordering and explicit memory barriers. This has been tested successfully on i386 and ppc64. Signed-off-by: <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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