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Michalis Kokologiannakis authored
When an RCU-protected pointer is fetched but never dereferenced rcu_access_pointer() should be used in place of rcu_dereference(). This commit explicitly records this very fact in Documentation/ RCU/rcu_dereference.txt, in order to prevent the usage of rcu_dereference() in comparisons. Signed-off-by: Michalis Kokologiannakis <mixaskok@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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