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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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ja_JP docs: update old references for DocBook from the documentation 2017-05-16 08:44:19 -03:00
ko_KR locking/barriers: Kill lockless_dereference() 2017-10-24 13:17:33 +02:00
zh_CN docs: Makefile: remove no-ops targets 2017-07-23 15:50:48 -06:00