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

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Tue Mar 30 2010 - 13:04:44 EST


Le mardi 30 mars 2010 Ã 09:49 -0700, Paul E. McKenney a Ãcrit :
> 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?
>

Maybe use 'protected' word or something like that, or 'owned', ...

rcu_dereference_protected() or rcu_dereference_owned()



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