Re: [PATCH] treewide: Rename rcu_dereference_raw_notrace to _check

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On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 4:45 PM Joel Fernandes (Google)
<joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() API name is confusing.
> It is equivalent to rcu_dereference_raw() except that it also does
> sparse pointer checking.
>
> There are only a few users of rcu_dereference_raw_notrace(). This
> patches renames all of them to be rcu_dereference_raw_check with the
> "check" indicating sparse checking.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

There also these _notrace things but I am Ok with leaving them alone for now:
hash_for_each_possible_rcu_notrace
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_notrace

- Joel



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