As discussed on LKML http://marc.info/?i=54611D86.4040306%40de.ibm.com
ACCESS_ONCE might fail with specific compilers for non-scalar accesses.
Here is a set of patches to tackle that problem.
The first patch introduce READ_ONCE and ASSIGN_ONCE. If the data structure
is larger than the machine word size memcpy is used and a warning is emitted.
The next patches fix up several in-tree users of ACCESS_ONCE on non-scalar
types.
This merge does not yet contain a patch that forces ACCESS_ONCE to work only
on scalar types. This is targetted for the next merge window as Linux next
already contains new offenders regarding ACCESS_ONCE vs. non-scalar types.
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/borntraeger/linux
Pull ACCESS_ONCE cleanup preparation from Christian Borntraeger:
"kernel: Provide READ_ONCE and ASSIGN_ONCE
As discussed on LKML http://marc.info/?i=54611D86.4040306%40de.ibm.com
ACCESS_ONCE might fail with specific compilers for non-scalar
accesses.
Here is a set of patches to tackle that problem.
The first patch introduce READ_ONCE and ASSIGN_ONCE. If the data
structure is larger than the machine word size memcpy is used and a
warning is emitted. The next patches fix up several in-tree users of
ACCESS_ONCE on non-scalar types.
This does not yet contain a patch that forces ACCESS_ONCE to work only
on scalar types. This is targetted for the next merge window as Linux
next already contains new offenders regarding ACCESS_ONCE vs.
non-scalar types"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/borntraeger/linux:
s390/kvm: REPLACE barrier fixup with READ_ONCE
arm/spinlock: Replace ACCESS_ONCE with READ_ONCE
arm64/spinlock: Replace ACCESS_ONCE READ_ONCE
mips/gup: Replace ACCESS_ONCE with READ_ONCE
x86/gup: Replace ACCESS_ONCE with READ_ONCE
x86/spinlock: Replace ACCESS_ONCE with READ_ONCE
mm: replace ACCESS_ONCE with READ_ONCE or barriers
kernel: Provide READ_ONCE and ASSIGN_ONCE
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