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@@ -1886,18 +1886,6 @@ There are some more advanced barrier functions:
See Documentation/atomic_{t,bitops}.txt for more information.
- (*) lockless_dereference();
-
- This can be thought of as a pointer-fetch wrapper around the
- smp_read_barrier_depends() data-dependency barrier.
-
- This is also similar to rcu_dereference(), but in cases where
- object lifetime is handled by some mechanism other than RCU, for
- example, when the objects removed only when the system goes down.
- In addition, lockless_dereference() is used in some data structures
- that can be used both with and without RCU.
-
-
(*) dma_wmb();
(*) dma_rmb();