locking/barriers: Kill lockless_dereference()
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tue, 24 Oct 2017 10:22:49 +0000 (11:22 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 24 Oct 2017 11:17:33 +0000 (13:17 +0200)
commit59ecbbe7b31cd2d86ff9a9f461a00f7e7533aedc
treecb293c6c7810f9d781bb6f0c4017b2b3dd8a27bb
parent506458efaf153c1ea480591c5602a5a3ba5a3b76
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>
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
Documentation/translations/ko_KR/memory-barriers.txt
include/linux/compiler.h