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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: don't use INIT_RCU_HEAD
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:43:41 +0300
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On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 04:29:06PM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>> call_rcu() will unconditionally rewrite RCU head anyway.
>> Applies to 	struct neigh_parms
>> 	struct neigh_table
>> 	struct net
>> 	struct cipso_v4_doi
>> 	struct in_ifaddr
>> 	struct in_device
>> 	rt->u.dst
>
> It would probably make sense to get a statement from Paul
> whether this might be required in the future, f.i. for some
> debugging feature.

Let's cc him :-)