Milos Vyletel ed38446424 documentation: State that rcu_dereference() reloads pointer ...

Make a note stating that repeated calls of rcu_dereference() may not
return the same pointer if update happens while in critical section.

Reported-by: Jeff Haran <jeff.haran@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Milos Vyletel <milos@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

2015-05-27 12:57:28 -07:00

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documentation: Record rcu_dereference() value mishandling

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arrayRCU.txt

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00

checklist.txt

documentation: Record rcu_dereference() value mishandling

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listRCU.txt

rcu: Update docs to include kfree_rcu()

2012-11-08 11:44:25 -08:00

lockdep-splat.txt

rcu: Document interpretation of RCU-lockdep splats

2011-09-28 21:38:28 -07:00

lockdep.txt

rcu: Documentation update

2013-03-12 14:09:02 -07:00

NMI-RCU.txt

rcu: Fix RCU's NMI documentation

2011-09-28 21:36:44 -07:00

rcu_dereference.txt

documentation: Update rcu_dereference.txt based on WG21 discussions

2015-05-27 12:57:28 -07:00

rcu.txt

rcu: Remove redundant TREE_PREEMPT_RCU config option

2014-10-29 10:20:05 -07:00

rcubarrier.txt

rcu: Fix rcu_barrier() documentation

2013-08-18 17:05:32 -07:00

rculist_nulls.txt

netfilter: nf_conntrack: nf_conntrack_alloc() fixes

2009-07-16 14:03:40 +02:00

rcuref.txt

documentation: Add pointer to percpu-ref for RCU and refcount

2014-07-08 08:32:56 -07:00

RTFP.txt

documentation: Update reference, kerneltrap.org no longer works

2014-07-08 08:14:09 -07:00

stallwarn.txt

Merge branches 'doc.2015.01.07a', 'fixes.2015.01.15a', 'preempt.2015.01.06a', 'srcu.2015.01.06a', 'stall.2015.01.16a' and 'torture.2015.01.11a' into HEAD

2015-01-15 23:34:34 -08:00

torture.txt

rcu: Increase rcutorture test coverage

2013-08-20 11:38:41 -07:00

trace.txt

rcu: Make cond_resched_rcu_qs() apply to normal RCU flavors

2015-01-15 23:33:14 -08:00

UP.txt

rcu: Add synchronize_sched_expedited() rcutorture doc + updates

2009-07-03 10:02:29 +02:00

whatisRCU.txt

documentation: State that rcu_dereference() reloads pointer

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