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@@ -256,7 +256,9 @@ rcu_dereference()
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If you are going to be fetching multiple fields from the
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RCU-protected structure, using the local variable is of
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course preferred. Repeated rcu_dereference() calls look
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- ugly and incur unnecessary overhead on Alpha CPUs.
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+ ugly, do not guarantee that the same pointer will be returned
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+ if an update happened while in the critical section, and incur
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+ unnecessary overhead on Alpha CPUs.
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Note that the value returned by rcu_dereference() is valid
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only within the enclosing RCU read-side critical section.
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