Will Deacon 59ecbbe7b3 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>		2017-10-24 13:17:33 +02:00
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howto.rst	doc/kokr/howto: Only send regression fixes after -rc1	2017-06-22 10:25:22 -06:00
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memory-barriers.txt	locking/barriers: Kill lockless_dereference()	2017-10-24 13:17:33 +02:00
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