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Commit ed384464 authored by Milos Vyletel's avatar Milos Vyletel Committed by Paul E. McKenney
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documentation: State that rcu_dereference() reloads pointer



Make a note stating that repeated calls of rcu_dereference() may not
return the same pointer if update happens while in critical section.

Reported-by: default avatarJeff Haran <jeff.haran@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMilos Vyletel <milos@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
parent ee7c29be
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