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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-11-27 09:23:24 -0800
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-12-05 11:57:54 -0800
commit632a5c1c8fd281b82b1d70bdb1d692cba3b9ffd3 (patch)
tree347a26127b612a7f0371b980c4ac1a2da4fafef2 /include/linux
parentdoc: De-emphasize smp_read_barrier_depends (diff)
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genetlink: Remove smp_read_barrier_depends() from comment
Now that smp_read_barrier_depends() has been de-emphasized, the less said about it, the better. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/genetlink.h3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/genetlink.h b/include/linux/genetlink.h
index ecc2928e8046..bc738504ab4a 100644
--- a/include/linux/genetlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/genetlink.h
@@ -31,8 +31,7 @@ extern wait_queue_head_t genl_sk_destructing_waitq;
* @p: The pointer to read, prior to dereferencing
*
* Return the value of the specified RCU-protected pointer, but omit
- * both the smp_read_barrier_depends() and the READ_ONCE(), because
- * caller holds genl mutex.
+ * the READ_ONCE(), because caller holds genl mutex.
*/
#define genl_dereference(p) \
rcu_dereference_protected(p, lockdep_genl_is_held())