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Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 15:12:51 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel: events: core: Replace rcu_assign_pointer() with
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On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 09:16:48AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 11:42:35AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > Paul, why not do something like the below and do away with all this
> > nonsense?
> 
> We used to do that, but the compilers became uncooperative, despite
> Stephen Hemminger's best efforts.

Happen to have a link handy to that thread so I can educate myself?