On 11/13/2014 03:47 PM, David Howells wrote: > Pranith Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Recently lockless_dereference() was added which can be used in place of >> hard-coding smp_read_barrier_depends(). The following PATCH makes the change. > > Actually, the use of smp_read_barrier_depends() is wrong in circular > buffering. See Documentation/circular-buffers.txt >
OK. Should I send in a patch removing these barriers then? -- Pranith -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
