On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Yes, it's unneeded. afaict this was done for documentation/clarity
> reasons - to make it clear(er) that *vma is about to die. But that
> isn't what ACCESS_ONCE is for and the code comment does a fine job of
> this.
>
> I'll queue a patch to remove it.
I just hand-edited the patch instead...
Linus
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