locking/barriers: Convert users of lockless_dereference() to READ_ONCE()
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tue, 24 Oct 2017 10:22:48 +0000 (11:22 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 24 Oct 2017 11:17:33 +0000 (13:17 +0200)
commit506458efaf153c1ea480591c5602a5a3ba5a3b76
treec4ac0a89bf23993036720ec8883fff0740bf9019
parent76ebbe78f7390aee075a7f3768af197ded1bdfbb
locking/barriers: Convert users of lockless_dereference() to READ_ONCE()

READ_ONCE() now has an implicit smp_read_barrier_depends() call, so it
can be used instead of lockless_dereference() without any change in
semantics.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508840570-22169-4-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
13 files changed:
arch/x86/events/core.c
arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h
arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
fs/dcache.c
fs/overlayfs/ovl_entry.h
fs/overlayfs/readdir.c
include/linux/rculist.h
include/linux/rcupdate.h
kernel/events/core.c
kernel/seccomp.c
kernel/task_work.c
mm/slab.h