Re: [PATCH] NFS: Fix RCU warnings innfs_inode_return_delegation_noreclaim() [ver #2]

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Mar 30 2010 - 12:49:21 EST


On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:39:11PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Scrap this one -- Arnd has it covered, under the much better name
> > of rcu_dereference_const().
>
> Not convinced of that name either. That sounds like the RCU dereference of
> constant (R/O) data.

Which it is, as long as the lock is held.

But what name would you suggest?

Thanx, Paul
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