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SubjectRe: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 01/21] doc: READ_ONCE() now implies smp_barrier_depends()
On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 10:39:05PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > > Good point! How about as shown in the updated patch below?
> >
> > Humm, I thought the idea was to completely remove read_barrier_depends
> > from the lkmm and memory-barriers.txt, making it an Alpha implementation
> > detail.
>
> memory-barriers.txt explains how the barriers used by the kernel work, amongst
> other things.

The thing is, read-barrier-depends will no longer be used. read-read
dependencies will henceforth be assumed to 'just work'.

> Don't forget, btw, that Blackfin uses it also.

We should delete that blackfin code, its beyond insane.

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