linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 00/11] Rework READ

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wjjz927czq5zKkV1TUvajbWZGsPeFBSgnQftLNWmCcoSg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 21 Apr 2020 11:42:56 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@...roid.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@...il.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/11] Rework READ_ONCE() to improve codegen

On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 8:15 AM Will Deacon <will@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> It's me again. This is version four of the READ_ONCE() codegen improvement
> patches [...]

Let's just plan on biting the bullet and do this for 5.8. I'm assuming
that I'll juet get a pull request from you?

> (I'm interpreting the silence as monumental joy)

By now I think we can take that for granted.

Because "monumental joy" is certainly exactly what I felt re-reading
that "unqualified scalar type" macro.

Or maybe it was just my breakfast trying to say "Hi!".

                 Linus