Re: [Bridge] [PATCH v3 tip/core/rcu 0/14] Sparse-related updates for 3.13

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa
Date: Sat Oct 12 2013 - 13:39:36 EST


On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 10:13:45AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:53:27PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 04:16:59PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > Changes from v2:
> > >
> > > o Switch from rcu_assign_pointer() to ACCESS_ONCE() given that
> > > the pointers are all --rcu and already visible to readers,
> > > as suggested by Eric Dumazet and Josh Triplett.
> >
> > Hang on a moment. Do *none* of these cases need write memory barriers?
>
> Sigh. Some afternoons it doesn't pay to touch the keyboard.
>
> Thank you for catching this. I will fix, but at this point, I am thinking
> in terms of 3.14 rather than 3.13 for this series.

Some of them looked safe. You could also replace --rcu with __rcu in the
comments while at it.

Thanks,

Hannes

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