linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 01/14] rcu: Protect rcu_boost() lockless accesses with ACCESS

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Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2015 11:12:06 -0800
From:	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
To:	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
Cc:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...nel.org,
	laijs@...fujitsu.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
	josh@...htriplett.org, tglx@...utronix.de, rostedt@...dmis.org,
	dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com, dvhart@...ux.intel.com,
	fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com,
	Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@...il.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 01/14] rcu: Protect rcu_boost() lockless
 accesses with ACCESS_ONCE()

On Tue, 2015-01-13 at 09:18 +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> Subject: Change ASSIGN_ONCE(val, x) to WRITE_ONCE(x, val)
> 
> Feedback has shown that WRITE_ONCE(x, val) is easier to use than ASSIGN_ONCE(val,x).
> There are no in-tree users yet, so lets change it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>

Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>

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