linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/16] rcupdate: Replace smp_read_barrier_depends() with lockless

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Message-ID: <546BA04E.1050406@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:38:54 -0500
From:	Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@...il.com>
To:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
CC:	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	"open list:READ-COPY UPDATE..." <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/16] rcupdate: Replace smp_read_barrier_depends() with
 lockless_dereference()


On 11/18/2014 12:16 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 02:24:14PM -0500, Pranith Kumar wrote:
>> Recently lockless_dereference() was added which can be used in place of
>> hard-coding smp_read_barrier_depends(). The following PATCH makes the change.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@...il.com>
> Queued for 3.20, thank you!  I was wondering about your removing the
> "_" from "_________p1", but see that this allowed you to avoid the
> checkpatch.pl warning.  ;-)
>
Yes, that was the easiest way I could think of to avoid the warning with adding more lines.

I will send the rest of the patches updated with comments.

Thanks,
Pranith

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