Re: [PATCH 00/18] Allow architectures to override __READ_ONCE()

From: Josh Triplett
Date: Wed Jul 01 2020 - 03:39:04 EST


On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 06:37:16PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> The patches allow architectures to provide their own implementation of
> __READ_ONCE(). This serves two main purposes:
>
> 1. It finally allows us to remove [smp_]read_barrier_depends() from the
> Linux memory model and make it an implementation detail of the Alpha
> back-end.

And there was much rejoicing. Thank you.