From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754486Ab0C3QtQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:49:16 -0400 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.142]:45393 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752764Ab0C3QtP (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:49:15 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:49:12 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: David Howells Cc: Eric Dumazet , Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFS: Fix RCU warnings in nfs_inode_return_delegation_noreclaim() [ver #2] Message-ID: <20100330164912.GG2513@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20100329210520.GN2569@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20100329192159.GM2569@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20100319022527.GC2894@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20100318133302.29754.1584.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <19192.1269889348@redhat.com> <23274.1269893706@redhat.com> <25276.1269901350@redhat.com> <26760.1269903543@redhat.com> <20100329232636.GT2569@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <2440.1269967151@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2440.1269967151@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:39:11PM +0100, David Howells wrote: > Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > Scrap this one -- Arnd has it covered, under the much better name > > of rcu_dereference_const(). > > Not convinced of that name either. That sounds like the RCU dereference of > constant (R/O) data. Which it is, as long as the lock is held. But what name would you suggest? Thanx, Paul