Re: [GIT PULL] overlay filesystem v25

From: Al Viro
Date: Mon Oct 27 2014 - 21:12:22 EST


On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:36:21AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> Code making direct use of smp_read_barrier_depends() is harder to read,
> in my experience, but good point on the sparse noise. Maybe a new
> lockless_dereference() primitive? Maybe something like the following?
> (Untested, probably does not even build.)
>
> #define lockless_dereference(p) \
> ({ \
> typeof(*p) *_________p1 = ACCESS_ONCE(p); \
> smp_read_barrier_depends(); /* Dependency order vs. p above. */ \
> _________p1; \
> })

Hmm... Where would you prefer to put it? rcupdate.h?
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