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[tip/core/rcu,24/55] rcu: Not necessary to pass rcu_read_lock_held() to rcu_dereference_protected()

Message ID 1315332049-2604-24-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
State Accepted
Commit e5177ec77d503636d0b609671c9d408b981add17
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Paul E. McKenney Sept. 6, 2011, 6 p.m. UTC 
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>

Since ca5ecddf (rcu: define __rcu address space modifier for sparse)
rcu_dereference_check() use rcu_read_lock_held() as a part of condition
automatically.  Therefore, callers of rcu_dereference_check() no longer
need to pass rcu_read_lock_held() to rcu_dereference_check().

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 Documentation/RCU/lockdep.txt |   10 ++++------
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/lockdep.txt b/Documentation/RCU/lockdep.txt
index d7a49b2..4998c63 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/lockdep.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/lockdep.txt
@@ -48,13 +48,11 @@  checking of rcu_dereference() primitives:
 		value of the pointer itself, for example, against NULL.
 
 The rcu_dereference_check() check expression can be any boolean
-expression, but would normally include one of the rcu_read_lock_held()
-family of functions and a lockdep expression.  However, any boolean
-expression can be used.  For a moderately ornate example, consider
-the following:
+expression, but would normally include a lockdep expression.  However,
+any boolean expression can be used.  For a moderately ornate example,
+consider the following:
 
 	file = rcu_dereference_check(fdt->fd[fd],
-				     rcu_read_lock_held() ||
 				     lockdep_is_held(&files->file_lock) ||
 				     atomic_read(&files->count) == 1);
 
@@ -62,7 +60,7 @@  This expression picks up the pointer "fdt->fd[fd]" in an RCU-safe manner,
 and, if CONFIG_PROVE_RCU is configured, verifies that this expression
 is used in:
 
-1.	An RCU read-side critical section, or
+1.	An RCU read-side critical section (implicit), or
 2.	with files->file_lock held, or
 3.	on an unshared files_struct.