documentation: Subsequent writes ordered by rcu_dereference()
The current memory-barriers.txt does not address the possibility of a write to a dereferenced pointer. This should be rare, but when it happens, we need that write -not- to be clobbered by the initialization. This commit therefore adds an example showing a data dependency ordering a later data-dependent write. Reported-by: Leonid Yegoshin <Leonid.Yegoshin@imgtec.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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