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@@ -256,7 +256,9 @@ rcu_dereference()
If you are going to be fetching multiple fields from the
RCU-protected structure, using the local variable is of
course preferred. Repeated rcu_dereference() calls look
- ugly and incur unnecessary overhead on Alpha CPUs.
+ ugly, do not guarantee that the same pointer will be returned
+ if an update happened while in the critical section, and incur
+ unnecessary overhead on Alpha CPUs.
Note that the value returned by rcu_dereference() is valid
only within the enclosing RCU read-side critical section.
@@ -879,9 +881,7 @@ SRCU: Initialization/cleanup
All: lockdep-checked RCU-protected pointer access
- rcu_access_index
rcu_access_pointer
- rcu_dereference_index_check
rcu_dereference_raw
rcu_lockdep_assert
rcu_sleep_check