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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt index adc2184009c5..dc49c6712b17 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt @@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ uses of RCU may be found in listRCU.txt, arrayRCU.txt, and NMI-RCU.txt. }; DEFINE_SPINLOCK(foo_mutex); - struct foo *gbl_foo; + struct foo __rcu *gbl_foo; /* * Create a new struct foo that is the same as the one currently @@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ uses of RCU may be found in listRCU.txt, arrayRCU.txt, and NMI-RCU.txt. new_fp = kmalloc(sizeof(*new_fp), GFP_KERNEL); spin_lock(&foo_mutex); - old_fp = gbl_foo; + old_fp = rcu_dereference_protected(gbl_foo, lockdep_is_held(&foo_mutex)); *new_fp = *old_fp; new_fp->a = new_a; rcu_assign_pointer(gbl_foo, new_fp); @@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ The foo_update_a() function might then be written as follows: new_fp = kmalloc(sizeof(*new_fp), GFP_KERNEL); spin_lock(&foo_mutex); - old_fp = gbl_foo; + old_fp = rcu_dereference_protected(gbl_foo, lockdep_is_held(&foo_mutex)); *new_fp = *old_fp; new_fp->a = new_a; rcu_assign_pointer(gbl_foo, new_fp); |