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From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH-v2 0/4] target: Eliminate se_port + t10_alua_tg_pt_gp_member
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 14:44:14 +0200
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On 05/26/15 08:57, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
>    - Add various rcu_dereference and lockless_dereference RCU notation

Hello Nic,

Feedback from an RCU expert (which I'm not) would be appreciated here. 
But my understanding is that lockless_dereference(p) should be used for 
a pointer p that has *not* been annotated as an RCU pointer. I think in 
the for-next branch of the target repository that this macro is used to 
access RCU-annotated pointers. Is that why sparse complains about how 
lockless_dereference() is used in the target tree ?

Bart.