linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] arch: use WRITE_ONCE/READ_ONCE in smp_store_release/smp_load

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Message-ID: <1438548631.2249.125.camel@stgolabs.net>
Date:	Sun, 02 Aug 2015 13:50:31 -0700
From:	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
To:	Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] arch: use WRITE_ONCE/READ_ONCE in
 smp_store_release/smp_load_acquire

On Sun, 2015-08-02 at 17:11 +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> Replace ACCESS_ONCE() macro in smp_store_release() and smp_load_acquire()
> with WRITE_ONCE() and READ_ONCE() on x86, arm, arm64, ia64, metag, mips,
> powerpc, s390, sparc and asm-generic since ACCESS_ONCE does not work
> reliably on non-scalar types.
> 
> WRITE_ONCE() and READ_ONCE() were introduced in the commits 230fa253df63
> ("kernel: Provide READ_ONCE and ASSIGN_ONCE") and 43239cbe79fc ("kernel:
> Change ASSIGN_ONCE(val, x) to WRITE_ONCE(x, val)").
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>

Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@...e.de>

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