Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 16 Nov 2014 20:43:00 -0800 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 09/16] percpu: Replace smp_read_barrier_depends() with lockless_dereference() |
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On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 08:14:48AM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 02:24:15PM -0500, Pranith Kumar wrote: > > 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.prani@gmail.com> > > How should this be routed? There's a pending change on the same > region of code and if this patch is routed outside percpu tree it'd > cause a conflict and I can't route this as lockless_dereference() > isn't in the mainline yet. Maybe expose a git branch which contaisn > lockless_dereference() so that percpu can pull it in?
Actually, lockless_dereference() is now in mainline, if that makes it easier.
Thanx, Paul
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