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Recent LKML discussings (see http://lwn.net/Articles/586838/ and http://lwn.net/Articles/588300/ for the LWN writeups) brought out some ways of misusing the return value from rcu_dereference() that are not necessarily completely intuitive. This commit therefore documents what can and cannot safely be done with these values. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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00-INDEX
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- This file
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arrayRCU.txt
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- Using RCU to Protect Read-Mostly Arrays
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checklist.txt
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- Review Checklist for RCU Patches
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listRCU.txt
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- Using RCU to Protect Read-Mostly Linked Lists
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lockdep.txt
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- RCU and lockdep checking
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lockdep-splat.txt
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- RCU Lockdep splats explained.
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NMI-RCU.txt
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- Using RCU to Protect Dynamic NMI Handlers
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rcu_dereference.txt
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- Proper care and feeding of return values from rcu_dereference()
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rcubarrier.txt
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- RCU and Unloadable Modules
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rculist_nulls.txt
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- RCU list primitives for use with SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU
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rcuref.txt
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- Reference-count design for elements of lists/arrays protected by RCU
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rcu.txt
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- RCU Concepts
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RTFP.txt
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- List of RCU papers (bibliography) going back to 1980.
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stallwarn.txt
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- RCU CPU stall warnings (module parameter rcu_cpu_stall_suppress)
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torture.txt
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- RCU Torture Test Operation (CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST)
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trace.txt
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- CONFIG_RCU_TRACE debugfs files and formats
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UP.txt
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- RCU on Uniprocessor Systems
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whatisRCU.txt
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- What is RCU?
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