Re: [PATCH 16/16] rxrpc: Replace smp_read_barrier_depends() with lockless_dereference()

[David Howells]

Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Recently lockless_dereference() was added which can be used in place of
> hard-coding smp_read_barrier_depends(). The following PATCH makes the change.

Actually, the use of smp_read_barrier_depends() is wrong in circular
buffering.  See Documentation/circular-buffers.txt

David
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