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@@ -1710,6 +1710,17 @@ There are some more advanced barrier functions:
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operations" subsection for information on where to use these.
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+ (*) lockless_dereference();
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+ This can be thought of as a pointer-fetch wrapper around the
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+ smp_read_barrier_depends() data-dependency barrier.
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+ This is also similar to rcu_dereference(), but in cases where
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+ object lifetime is handled by some mechanism other than RCU, for
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+ example, when the objects removed only when the system goes down.
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+ In addition, lockless_dereference() is used in some data structures
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+ that can be used both with and without RCU.
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(*) dma_wmb();
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(*) dma_rmb();
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