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David S. Miller
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Eric Dumazet says:
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rfs: annotate lockless accesses
rfs runs without locks held, so we should annotate
read and writes to shared variables.
It should prevent compilers forcing writes
in the following situation:
if (var != val)
var = val;
A compiler could indeed simply avoid the conditional:
var = val;
This matters if var is shared between many cpus.
v2: aligns one closing bracket (Simon)
adds Fixes: tags (Jakub)
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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