linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] net - removing superfluous rcu_read_lock

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Message-Id: <20101101.133328.232758664.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:33:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jolsa@...hat.com
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, lizf@...fujitsu.com, paul.moore@...com,
	johannes@...solutions.net, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] net - removing superfluous rcu_read_lock_held check

From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
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 <jolsa@...hat.com>

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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