Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964863AbVKLWiN (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Nov 2005 17:38:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964866AbVKLWiN (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Nov 2005 17:38:13 -0500 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.142]:13736 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964863AbVKLWiM (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Nov 2005 17:38:12 -0500 Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 14:38:56 -0800 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Alan Stern Cc: Chandra Seetharaman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Subject: [RFC][PATCH] Fix for unsafe notifier chain mechanism Message-ID: <20051112223856.GA5709@us.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@us.ibm.com References: <20051112192809.GA5296@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 879 Lines: 20 On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 04:01:02PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > It's not really duplicate documentation since _both_ pointers are to be > > > RCU-dereferenced. But maybe you mean that only the second pointer can be > > > RCU-dereferenced at the time the write occurs? I don't think that's what > > > the documentation comment intended. > > > > I am the guy who wrote that documentation ocmment. ;-) > > In that case I bow to your advice. :-) Any advice on how to change the documentation so as to make the intent more clear would of course be most welcome! Thanx, Paul - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/