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| author | Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> | 2017-10-24 11:22:48 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2017-10-24 13:17:33 +0200 |
| commit | 506458efaf153c1ea480591c5602a5a3ba5a3b76 (patch) | |
| tree | c4ac0a89bf23993036720ec8883fff0740bf9019 /arch/x86/include/asm | |
| parent | 76ebbe78f7390aee075a7f3768af197ded1bdfbb (diff) | |
locking/barriers: Convert users of lockless_dereference() to READ_ONCE()
READ_ONCE() now has an implicit smp_read_barrier_depends() call, so it
can be used instead of lockless_dereference() without any change in
semantics.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508840570-22169-4-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h index 3c856a15b98e..efc530642f7d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h @@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ static inline void load_mm_ldt(struct mm_struct *mm) #ifdef CONFIG_MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL struct ldt_struct *ldt; - /* lockless_dereference synchronizes with smp_store_release */ - ldt = lockless_dereference(mm->context.ldt); + /* READ_ONCE synchronizes with smp_store_release */ + ldt = READ_ONCE(mm->context.ldt); /* * Any change to mm->context.ldt is followed by an IPI to all |