Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Nov 2015 05:55:31 -0800 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] locking changes for v4.4 |
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On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 12:37:01PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 05:30:29PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > From 105ff3cbf225036b75a6a46c96d1ddce8e7bdc66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> > > Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 17:22:17 -0800 > > Subject: [PATCH] atomic: remove all traces of READ_ONCE_CTRL() and atomic*_read_ctrl() > > > So I do not see how these "x_ctrl()" functions can currently be necessary. > > > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> > > Cc: Paul E McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> > > Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> > > Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> > > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> > > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> > > Hooray! > > Now if only we could convince the C/C++ people that write speculation is > a bad idea :-)
Sigh... Working on it...
Thanx, Paul
> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> >
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