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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2015-04-07 12:45:41 -0700
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2015-05-27 12:57:28 -0700
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documentation: Update rcu_dereference.txt based on WG21 discussions
This commit provides another caveat for the care and feeding of pointers returned by rcu_dereference() that was pointed out in discussions within the C++ standards committee. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
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@@ -193,6 +193,11 @@ o Be very careful about comparing pointers obtained from
pointer. Note that the volatile cast in rcu_dereference()
will normally prevent the compiler from knowing too much.
+ However, please note that if the compiler knows that the
+ pointer takes on only one of two values, a not-equal
+ comparison will provide exactly the information that the
+ compiler needs to deduce the value of the pointer.
+
o Disable any value-speculation optimizations that your compiler
might provide, especially if you are making use of feedback-based
optimizations that take data collected from prior runs. Such