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Date:	Fri, 3 Jul 2015 09:14:46 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Jon Christopherson <jon@...s.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools/perf, rbtree: Add RCU wrappers to make rbtree.h
 usable in user-space

On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 06:21:12AM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Looks like Peter Zijlstra is the one to take this fix...

acme is the steward of tools/perf/

> >> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> >> b/tools/perf/util/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> >> new file mode 100644
> >> index 0000000..51c0f45
> >> --- /dev/null
> >> +++ b/tools/perf/util/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> >> @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
> >> +#ifndef PERF_LINUX_RCUPDATE_H_
> >> +#define PERF_LINUX_RCUPDATE_H_
> >> +
> >> +/* Simple trivial wrappers for now, we don't use RCU in perf user-space
> >> (yet): */
> >> +#define WRITE_ONCE(var, val) ((var) = (val))

It looks like perf includes linux/compiler.h so it should already have this.

> >> +#define rcu_assign_pointer(ptr, val) WRITE_ONCE(ptr, val)

That's plain wrong, WRITE_ONCE(*(ptr), (val))
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