RCU is a specialized synchronization mechanism, and is typically used where there are far more readers ( rcu_read_lock() , rcu_read_unlock() , rcu_dereference() , and so on) than there are updaters ( synchronize_rcu() , call_rcu() , rcu_assign_pointer() …

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