Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754030Ab0KAUdG (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Nov 2010 16:33:06 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:49295 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753434Ab0KAUdF (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Nov 2010 16:33:05 -0400 Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:33:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20101101.133328.232758664.davem@davemloft.net> To: jolsa@redhat.com Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, lizf@cn.fujitsu.com, paul.moore@hp.com, johannes@sipsolutions.net, dipankar@in.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] net - removing superfluous rcu_read_lock_held check From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1288638909-10541-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com> References: <1288638909-10541-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com> <1288638909-10541-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 649 Lines: 18 From: Jiri Olsa Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 20:15:09 +0100 > the rcu_dereference_check is defined as > > #define rcu_dereference_check(p, c) \ > __rcu_dereference_check((p), rcu_read_lock_held() || (c), __rcu) > > so the caller does not need to specify rcu_read_lock_held() condition. > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Acked-by: David S. Miller -- 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/