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Date:	Wed, 05 May 2010 08:44:55 -0400
From:	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, laijs@...fujitsu.com,
	dipankar@...ibm.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca, josh@...htriplett.org,
	dvhltc@...ibm.com, niv@...ibm.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	peterz@...radead.org, rostedt@...dmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 36/48] nfs: __rcu annotations

On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 11:14 +0100, David Howells wrote: 
> Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> >  struct nfs_delegation {
> >  	struct list_head super_list;
> > -	struct rpc_cred *cred;
> > +	struct rpc_cred __rcu *cred;
> >  	struct inode *inode;
> >  	nfs4_stateid stateid;
> >  	fmode_t type;
> 
> That's unnecessary.  I posted a patch that removed the usage of RCU on that
> pointer:
> 
> 	Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:26:13 +0100
> 	Subject: NFS: Fix RCU issues in the NFSv4 delegation code
> 
> Did Trond take it?
> 
> David

Yes. I haven't pushed it to Linus yet, but I'm planning to do so in the
next 2 days.

Cheers
  Trond
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