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From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/19] locking/barriers: Kill lockless_dereference
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 11:23:37 +0100
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On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 11:54:28AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 11:31:04AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > Also, could we please split this into three patches:
> > > 
> > >  #1: Add smp_read_barrier_depends() to READ_ONCE()
> > >  #2: Convert all lockless_dereference() users to READ_ONCE()
> > >  #3: Remove the now unused lockless_dereference() API
> > > 
> > > to make it easier to analyze if bisected to, should any problems arise?
> > 
> > Sure, I'll do that now.
> 
> Thanks!

https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/10/24/323

Will