From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 1/3] net: add rtnl_dereference() Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:30:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100915.193057.71567026.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1284584835.2462.69.camel@edumazet-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:38492 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751620Ab0IPCak (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:30:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1284584835.2462.69.camel@edumazet-laptop> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Eric Dumazet Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:07:15 +0200 > We sometime want to dereference an rcu protected pointer while > holding RTNL. Use a macro to hide all lockdep details. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Applied.