[RFC PATCH 00/16] Replace smp_read_barrier_depends() with lockless_derefrence()

2014-11-13 Thread Pranith Kumar
Recently lockless_dereference() was added which can be used in place of hard-coding smp_read_barrier_depends(). http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1410.3/04561.html The following series tries to do this. There are still some hard-coded locations which I was not sure how to replace with.

Re: [RFC PATCH 00/16] Replace smp_read_barrier_depends() with lockless_derefrence()

2014-11-13 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 02:24:06PM -0500, Pranith Kumar wrote: Recently lockless_dereference() was added which can be used in place of hard-coding smp_read_barrier_depends(). http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1410.3/04561.html The following series tries to do this. There are