On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 1:16 AM, Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> - More gradual enhancements to atomic ops: new atomic*_read_ctrl() ops,
>> synchronize atomic_{read,set}() ordering requirements between
>> architectures,
>> add atomic_long_t bitops. (Peter Zijlstra)
>
> From another thread: those new "atomic*_read_ctrl()" operations are
> complete voodoo programming, and should never ever be used.
Sadly, that commit seems to be in the middle of the series.
I think I'll pull this, but then just make a separate commit to remove
all the bogus games with "control" dependencies that seem to have no
basis is reality.
Linus
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