linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/18] Allow architectures to override __READ

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Message-ID: <20200701073846.GC301687@localhost>
Date:   Wed, 1 Jul 2020 00:38:46 -0700
From:   Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
To:     Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>,
        Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
        Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, kernel-team@...roid.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] Allow architectures to override __READ_ONCE()

On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 06:37:16PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> The patches allow architectures to provide their own implementation of
> __READ_ONCE(). This serves two main purposes:
> 
>   1. It finally allows us to remove [smp_]read_barrier_depends() from the
>      Linux memory model and make it an implementation detail of the Alpha
>      back-end.

And there was much rejoicing. Thank you.