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Re: [PATCH v2] mac80211: use synchronize_rcu() with rcu_barrier()

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On Thu, 2013-04-18 at 18:26 -0400, Bob Copeland wrote:
> The RCU docs used to state that rcu_barrier() included a wait
> for an RCU grace period; however the comments for rcu_barrier()
> as of commit f0a0e6f... "rcu: Clarify memory-ordering properties
> of grace-period primitives" contradict this.
> 
> So add back synchronize_{rcu,net}() to where they once were,
> but keep the rcu_barrier()s for the call_rcu() callbacks.

Applied, thanks for spotting this!

johannes

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