From: Paul E. McKenney Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:16:35 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] NMI: Update NMI users of RCU to use new API X-Git-Tag: v2.6.14-rc1~730 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=19306059cd7fedaf96b4b0260a9a8a45e513c857;p=pandora-kernel.git [PATCH] NMI: Update NMI users of RCU to use new API Uses of RCU for dynamically changeable NMI handlers need to use the new rcu_dereference() and rcu_assign_pointer() facilities. This change makes it clear that these uses are safe from a memory-barrier viewpoint, but the main purpose is to document exactly what operations are being protected by RCU. This has been tested on x86 and x86-64, which are the only architectures affected by this change. Signed-off-by: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed