[Bridge] [PATCH v3 tip/core/rcu 0/14] Sparse-related updates for 3.13
Paul E. McKenney
paulmck at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Sat Oct 12 17:13:45 UTC 2013
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.
Thanx, Paul
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