locking: Remove atomicy checks from {READ,WRITE}_ONCE
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Thu, 26 Mar 2015 16:45:37 +0000 (17:45 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fri, 27 Mar 2015 08:42:01 +0000 (09:42 +0100)
The fact that volatile allows for atomic load/stores is a special case
not a requirement for {READ,WRITE}_ONCE(). Their primary purpose is to
force the compiler to emit load/stores _once_.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
include/linux/compiler.h

index 1b45e4a0519b2c34033db91e37fd1f1f0b367f8c..0e41ca0e59275deb33b7c7220dffd1ff39cbb2f7 100644 (file)
@@ -192,29 +192,16 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_branch_data *f, int val, int expect);
 
 #include <uapi/linux/types.h>
 
-static __always_inline void data_access_exceeds_word_size(void)
-#ifdef __compiletime_warning
-__compiletime_warning("data access exceeds word size and won't be atomic")
-#endif
-;
-
-static __always_inline void data_access_exceeds_word_size(void)
-{
-}
-
 static __always_inline void __read_once_size(const volatile void *p, void *res, int size)
 {
        switch (size) {
        case 1: *(__u8 *)res = *(volatile __u8 *)p; break;
        case 2: *(__u16 *)res = *(volatile __u16 *)p; break;
        case 4: *(__u32 *)res = *(volatile __u32 *)p; break;
-#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
        case 8: *(__u64 *)res = *(volatile __u64 *)p; break;
-#endif
        default:
                barrier();
                __builtin_memcpy((void *)res, (const void *)p, size);
-               data_access_exceeds_word_size();
                barrier();
        }
 }
@@ -225,13 +212,10 @@ static __always_inline void __write_once_size(volatile void *p, void *res, int s
        case 1: *(volatile __u8 *)p = *(__u8 *)res; break;
        case 2: *(volatile __u16 *)p = *(__u16 *)res; break;
        case 4: *(volatile __u32 *)p = *(__u32 *)res; break;
-#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
        case 8: *(volatile __u64 *)p = *(__u64 *)res; break;
-#endif
        default:
                barrier();
                __builtin_memcpy((void *)p, (const void *)res, size);
-               data_access_exceeds_word_size();
                barrier();
        }
 }