locking/barriers: Kill lockless_dereference()

lockless_dereference() is a nice idea, but it gained little traction in
kernel code since its introduction three years ago. This is partly
because it's a pain to type, but also because using READ_ONCE() instead
has worked correctly on all architectures apart from Alpha, which is a
fully supported but somewhat niche architecture these days.

Now that READ_ONCE() has been upgraded to contain an implicit
smp_read_barrier_depends() and the few callers of lockless_dereference()
have been converted, we can remove lockless_dereference() altogether.

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/1508840570-22169-5-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Will Deacon 2017-10-24 11:22:49 +01:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 506458efaf
commit 59ecbbe7b3
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@ -1886,18 +1886,6 @@ There are some more advanced barrier functions:
See Documentation/atomic_{t,bitops}.txt for more information.
(*) lockless_dereference();
This can be thought of as a pointer-fetch wrapper around the
smp_read_barrier_depends() data-dependency barrier.
This is also similar to rcu_dereference(), but in cases where
object lifetime is handled by some mechanism other than RCU, for
example, when the objects removed only when the system goes down.
In addition, lockless_dereference() is used in some data structures
that can be used both with and without RCU.
(*) dma_wmb();
(*) dma_rmb();

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@ -1858,18 +1858,6 @@ Mandatory 배리어들은 SMP 시스템에서도 UP 시스템에서도 SMP 효
참고하세요.
(*) lockless_dereference();
이 함수는 smp_read_barrier_depends() 데이터 의존성 배리어를 사용하는
포인터 읽어오기 래퍼(wrapper) 함수로 생각될 수 있습니다.
객체의 라이프타임이 RCU 외의 메커니즘으로 관리된다는 점을 제외하면
rcu_dereference() 와도 유사한데, 예를 들면 객체가 시스템이 꺼질 때에만
제거되는 경우 등입니다. 또한, lockless_dereference() 은 RCU 와 함께
사용될수도, RCU 없이 사용될 수도 있는 일부 데이터 구조에 사용되고
있습니다.
(*) dma_wmb();
(*) dma_rmb();

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@ -346,24 +346,4 @@ static __always_inline void __write_once_size(volatile void *p, void *res, int s
(volatile typeof(x) *)&(x); })
#define ACCESS_ONCE(x) (*__ACCESS_ONCE(x))
/**
* lockless_dereference() - safely load a pointer for later dereference
* @p: The pointer to load
*
* Similar to rcu_dereference(), but for situations where the pointed-to
* object's lifetime is managed by something other than RCU. That
* "something other" might be reference counting or simple immortality.
*
* The seemingly unused variable ___typecheck_p validates that @p is
* indeed a pointer type by using a pointer to typeof(*p) as the type.
* Taking a pointer to typeof(*p) again is needed in case p is void *.
*/
#define lockless_dereference(p) \
({ \
typeof(p) _________p1 = READ_ONCE(p); \
typeof(*(p)) *___typecheck_p __maybe_unused; \
smp_read_barrier_depends(); /* Dependency order vs. p above. */ \
(_________p1); \
})
#endif /* __LINUX_COMPILER_H */