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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2016-05-25 16:11:57 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-06-03 12:06:11 +0200
commited8ebd1d514126c0e54fbdbd231427dc91c877c2 (patch)
treedc2ffc9e0c17ace6aaa11abe4e13cd7c04ba7f7c /samples
parent6e2814745c67ab422b86262b05e6f23a56f28aa3 (diff)
percpu, locking: Revert ("percpu: Replace smp_read_barrier_depends() with lockless_dereference()")
lockless_dereference() is planned to grow a sanity check to ensure that the input parameter is a pointer. __ref_is_percpu() passes in an unsinged long value which is a combination of a pointer and a flag. While it can be casted to a pointer lvalue, the casting looks messy and it's a special case anyway. Let's revert back to open-coding READ_ONCE() and explicit barrier. This doesn't cause any functional changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: kernel-team@fb.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20160522185040.GA23664@p183.telecom.by Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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