Recently lockless_dereference() was added which can be used in place of hard-coding smp_read_barrier_depends(). The following PATCH makes the change.
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.pr...@gmail.com> --- include/linux/percpu-refcount.h | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/percpu-refcount.h b/include/linux/percpu-refcount.h index 494ab05..3cf6759 100644 --- a/include/linux/percpu-refcount.h +++ b/include/linux/percpu-refcount.h @@ -128,10 +128,8 @@ static inline void percpu_ref_kill(struct percpu_ref *ref) static inline bool __ref_is_percpu(struct percpu_ref *ref, unsigned long __percpu **percpu_countp) { - unsigned long percpu_ptr = ACCESS_ONCE(ref->percpu_count_ptr); - /* paired with smp_store_release() in percpu_ref_reinit() */ - smp_read_barrier_depends(); + unsigned long percpu_ptr = lockless_dereference(ref->percpu_count_ptr); if (unlikely(percpu_ptr & __PERCPU_REF_ATOMIC)) return false; -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/