ftrace: Replace read_barrier_depends() with rcu_dereference_raw()
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fri, 5 Mar 2010 23:03:25 +0000 (15:03 -0800)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:38:01 +0000 (13:38 +0100)
commit3f379b03fbfddd20536389a85c6456f8233d1f8d
tree2847590a23aa0d72e799bd6d65a8a794abb565ac
parent54dbf96c921513bf98484a20ef366d51944a4c4d
ftrace: Replace read_barrier_depends() with rcu_dereference_raw()

Replace the calls to read_barrier_depends() in
ftrace_list_func() with rcu_dereference_raw() to improve
readability.  The reason that we use rcu_dereference_raw() here
is that removed entries are never freed, instead they are simply
leaked.  This is one of a very few cases where use of
rcu_dereference_raw() is the long-term right answer.  And I
don't yet know of any others.  ;-)

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kernel/trace/ftrace.c