linux-kernel - [tip:locking/urgent] checkpatch: Remove ACCESS

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Date:   Tue, 12 Dec 2017 07:07:53 -0800
From:   tip-bot for Mark Rutland <tipbot@...or.com>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     joe@...ches.com, hpa@...or.com, peterz@...radead.org,
        paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...nel.org, apw@...onical.com,
        mark.rutland@....com, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: [tip:locking/urgent] checkpatch: Remove ACCESS_ONCE() warning

Commit-ID:  8cb562b1d56fad42cbee44bdc9bc64cea41a0a8c
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/8cb562b1d56fad42cbee44bdc9bc64cea41a0a8c
Author:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
AuthorDate: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 10:38:24 +0000
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 13:22:10 +0100

checkpatch: Remove ACCESS_ONCE() warning

Now that ACCESS_ONCE() has been excised from the kernel, any uses will
result in a build error, and we no longer need to whine about it in
checkpatch.

This patch removes the newly redundant warning.

Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: acme@...hat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171127103824.36526-5-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 22 ----------------------
 1 file changed, 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 040aa79..31031f1 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -6233,28 +6233,6 @@ sub process {
 			}
 		}
 
-# whine about ACCESS_ONCE
-		if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
-		    $line =~ /\bACCESS_ONCE\s*$balanced_parens\s*(=(?!=))?\s*($FuncArg)?/) {
-			my $par = $1;
-			my $eq = $2;
-			my $fun = $3;
-			$par =~ s/^\(\s*(.*)\s*\)$/$1/;
-			if (defined($eq)) {
-				if (WARN("PREFER_WRITE_ONCE",
-					 "Prefer WRITE_ONCE(<FOO>, <BAR>) over ACCESS_ONCE(<FOO>) = <BAR>\n" . $herecurr) &&
-				    $fix) {
-					$fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\bACCESS_ONCE\s*\(\s*\Q$par\E\s*\)\s*$eq\s*\Q$fun\E/WRITE_ONCE($par, $fun)/;
-				}
-			} else {
-				if (WARN("PREFER_READ_ONCE",
-					 "Prefer READ_ONCE(<FOO>) over ACCESS_ONCE(<FOO>)\n" . $herecurr) &&
-				    $fix) {
-					$fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\bACCESS_ONCE\s*\(\s*\Q$par\E\s*\)/READ_ONCE($par)/;
-				}
-			}
-		}
-
 # check for mutex_trylock_recursive usage
 		if ($line =~ /mutex_trylock_recursive/) {
 			ERROR("LOCKING",