Le mardi 30 mars 2010 à 09:49 -0700, Paul E. McKenney a écrit :
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> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:39:11PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> > Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Scrap this one -- Arnd has it covered, under the much better name
> > > of rcu_dereference_const().
> > 
> > Not convinced of that name either.  That sounds like the RCU dereference of
> > constant (R/O) data.
> 
> Which it is, as long as the lock is held.
> 
> But what name would you suggest?
> 

Maybe use 'protected' word or something like that, or 'owned', ...

rcu_dereference_protected() or rcu_dereference_owned()



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