提交 71a9b269 编写于 作者: P Paul E. McKenney

rcu: Document RCU_INIT_POINTER()'s lack of ordering guarantees

Although rcu_assign_pointer() provides ordering guarantees,
RCU_INIT_POINTER() does not.  This commit makes that explicit
in the docbook comment header.
Reported-by: NLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
上级 a381d757
......@@ -949,6 +949,9 @@ static inline notrace void rcu_read_unlock_sched_notrace(void)
* pointers, but you must use rcu_assign_pointer() to initialize the
* external-to-structure pointer -after- you have completely initialized
* the reader-accessible portions of the linked structure.
*
* Note that unlike rcu_assign_pointer(), RCU_INIT_POINTER() provides no
* ordering guarantees for either the CPU or the compiler.
*/
#define RCU_INIT_POINTER(p, v) \
do { \
......
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