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authorTony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>2010-03-01 14:19:05 -0800
committerTony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>2010-03-01 14:19:05 -0800
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Merge with mainline to remove plat-omap/Kconfig conflict
Conflicts: arch/arm/plat-omap/Kconfig
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@@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ changes are :
2. Insertion of a dentry into the hash table is done using
hlist_add_head_rcu() which take care of ordering the writes - the
writes to the dentry must be visible before the dentry is
- inserted. This works in conjunction with hlist_for_each_rcu() while
+ inserted. This works in conjunction with hlist_for_each_rcu(),
+ which has since been replaced by hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(), while
walking the hash chain. The only requirement is that all
initialization to the dentry must be done before
hlist_add_head_rcu() since we don't have dcache_lock protection
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