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authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2017-10-24 11:22:48 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-10-24 13:17:33 +0200
commit506458efaf153c1ea480591c5602a5a3ba5a3b76 (patch)
treec4ac0a89bf23993036720ec8883fff0740bf9019 /kernel
parent76ebbe78f7390aee075a7f3768af197ded1bdfbb (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 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/core.c4
-rw-r--r--kernel/seccomp.c2
-rw-r--r--kernel/task_work.c2
3 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 9d93db81fa36..824a583079a1 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -4231,7 +4231,7 @@ static void perf_remove_from_owner(struct perf_event *event)
* indeed free this event, otherwise we need to serialize on
* owner->perf_event_mutex.
*/
- owner = lockless_dereference(event->owner);
+ owner = READ_ONCE(event->owner);
if (owner) {
/*
* Since delayed_put_task_struct() also drops the last
@@ -4328,7 +4328,7 @@ again:
* Cannot change, child events are not migrated, see the
* comment with perf_event_ctx_lock_nested().
*/
- ctx = lockless_dereference(child->ctx);
+ ctx = READ_ONCE(child->ctx);
/*
* Since child_mutex nests inside ctx::mutex, we must jump
* through hoops. We start by grabbing a reference on the ctx.
diff --git a/kernel/seccomp.c b/kernel/seccomp.c
index 0ae832e13b97..8ac79355915b 100644
--- a/kernel/seccomp.c
+++ b/kernel/seccomp.c
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ static u32 seccomp_run_filters(const struct seccomp_data *sd,
u32 ret = SECCOMP_RET_ALLOW;
/* Make sure cross-thread synced filter points somewhere sane. */
struct seccomp_filter *f =
- lockless_dereference(current->seccomp.filter);
+ READ_ONCE(current->seccomp.filter);
/* Ensure unexpected behavior doesn't result in failing open. */
if (unlikely(WARN_ON(f == NULL)))
diff --git a/kernel/task_work.c b/kernel/task_work.c
index 836a72a66fba..9a9f262fc53d 100644
--- a/kernel/task_work.c
+++ b/kernel/task_work.c
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ task_work_cancel(struct task_struct *task, task_work_func_t func)
* we raced with task_work_run(), *pprev == NULL/exited.
*/
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&task->pi_lock, flags);
- while ((work = lockless_dereference(*pprev))) {
+ while ((work = READ_ONCE(*pprev))) {
if (work->func != func)
pprev = &work->next;
else if (cmpxchg(pprev, work, work->next) == work)