On Sunday 15 May 2011 00:50:21 Sven Eckelmann wrote:
Usually rcu_dereference isn't necessary in situations were the RCU-protected data structure cannot change, but sparse and lockdep still need a similar functionality for analysis. rcu_dereference_protected implements the reduced version which should be used to support the dynamic and static analysis.
Applied in revision 26c6ecc.
Thanks, Marek