* Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hello, Ingo,
>
> This series is a first step towards making the core kernel no longer
> need to consider DEC Alpha as a special case. This is accomplished
> by two sets of patches, followed by a Coccinelle script:
>
> 1. Patches 1/19 through 15/19 in the following patches, which
> change non-Coccinelle-susceptible instances of ACCESS_ONCE()
> to either READ_ONCE() or WRITE_ONCE(), as appropriate. Most of
> these patches are courtesy of Mark Rutland.
>
> 2. Patches 16/19 through 18/19 in the following patches, which
> add smp_read_barrier_depends() to READ_ONCE() and to Alpha's
> value-returning _release and _relaxed atomic read-modify-write
> operations, while also removing lockless_dereference() in favor
> of the modified READ_ONCE().
>
> 3. A patch generated by Coccinelle (script in commit log) that
> converts ACCESS_ONCE() to either READ_ONCE() or WRITE_ONCE(),
> as appropriate. Of course, this patch should not be applied
> as-is to mainline, instead, the Coccinelle script should be
> re-run in order to account for any changes between now and
> the time of merging into mainline.
>
> A later series (most likely targeted to v4.16) will remove instances of
> smp_read_barrier_depends() that are made redundant by this series, that
> is to say, almost all of them.
>
> These changes are available in the git repository at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git
> rcu/alpha-cocci
>
> for you to fetch changes up to d19fa5187a69bd7685e9c7452ce9e339b1b079fc:
>
> COCCINELLE: treewide: kill off ACCESS_ONCE() (2017-10-21 12:52:09 -0700)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Mark Rutland (14):
> dm integrity: Kill off ACCESS_ONCE()
> EDAC, altera: Kill off ACCESS_ONCE()
> firmware/ivc: Kill off ACCESS_ONCE()
> fs: dcache: Kill off ACCESS_ONCE()
> fs: ncpfs: Kill off ACCESS_ONCE()
> media: dvb_ringbuffer: Kill off ACCESS_ONCE()
> net: netlink/netfilter: Kill off ACCESS_ONCE()
> net/ipv4/tcp_input.c: Kill off ACCESS_ONCE()
> net: average: Kill off ACCESS_ONCE()
> samples: mic/mpssd/mpssd.c: Kill off ACCESS_ONCE()
> selftests/powerpc: Kill off ACCESS_ONCE()
> workqueue: Kill off ACCESS_ONCE()
> rcutorture: formal: Prepare for ACCESS_ONCE() removal
> COCCINELLE: treewide: kill off ACCESS_ONCE()
None of the patches from Mark include your Signed-off-by - I'll add them, let
me
know if that's not OK. I suppose this happened because you rebased his tree?
Thanks,
Ingo
