On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:56:53PM +0530, Dipankar Sarma wrote:
>
> Well, the main reason is that if that code is somehow copied
> by to a lock-free critical section, it could cause problems.
> If you dereference ->fdt multiple times in a lock-free
> section, you could see two different pointers due to
> a concurrent update.
thanks for the explanation. This raises a lot of other questions. What
if max_fds is updated by RCU right after obtaining it...
--
Frank
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