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documentation: Add lockless_dereference()

The recently added lockless_dereference() macro is not present in the
Documentation/ directory, so this commit fixes that.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Paul E. McKenney 10 yıl önce
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      Documentation/memory-barriers.txt

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Documentation/memory-barriers.txt

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