Paul E. McKenney e6cb527255 rcu: Document rcu_access_pointer() feeding into cmpxchg() ...

This commit documents the rcu_access_pointer() use case for fetching the
old value of an RCU-protected pointer within a lockless updater for use
by an atomic cmpxchg() operation.

Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Maxim Mikityanskiy <maximmi@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>

2026-05-24 09:40:02 +02:00

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acpi

Merge branches 'acpi-apei', 'acpi-bus', 'acpi-cppc' and 'acpi-video'

2026-04-30 21:07:06 +02:00

asm-generic

kprobes: skip non-symbol addresses in kprobe_add_ksym_blacklist()

2026-05-08 10:03:44 +09:00

clocksource

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crypto

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cxl

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drm

Merge tag 'drm-misc-fixes-2026-05-15' of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/misc/kernel into drm-fixes

2026-05-16 07:56:32 +10:00

dt-bindings

Merge tag 'clk-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/clk/linux

2026-04-21 08:33:26 -07:00

hyperv

x86/hyperv: Skip LP/VP creation on kexec

2026-04-22 06:23:25 +00:00

keys

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kunit

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kvm

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linux

rcu: Document rcu_access_pointer() feeding into cmpxchg()

2026-05-24 09:40:02 +02:00

math-emu

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media

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memory

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misc

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net

macsec: use rcu_work to defer TX SA crypto cleanup out of softirq

2026-05-13 19:03:05 -07:00

pcmcia

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ras

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rdma

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rv

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scsi

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soc

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sound

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v7.1-merge-window' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

2026-04-23 09:34:28 +02:00

target

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trace

Merge tag 'for-7.1-rc3-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux

2026-05-15 13:22:07 -07:00

uapi

Merge tag 'sched-urgent-2026-05-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2026-05-08 19:42:10 -07:00

ufs

scsi: ufs: core: Fix bRefClkFreq write failure in HS-LSS mode

2026-04-21 20:58:06 -04:00

vdso

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video

fbdev: udlfb: add vm_ops to dlfb_ops_mmap to prevent use-after-free

2026-05-04 10:35:55 +02:00

xen

xen/arm: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in interface.h

2026-05-12 17:31:38 +02:00

Kbuild

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