Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > How about Eric's suggestion of rcu_dereference_protected()? That name > doesn't imply a lock, which as you say above, isn't always needed to > keep the structure from changing. But 'protected' from what or by what? David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html