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Commit e3e72ab8 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar
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atomic: Implement atomic_read_ctrl()



Provide atomic_read_ctrl() to mirror READ_ONCE_CTRL(), such that we can
more conveniently use atomics in control dependencies.

Since we can assume atomic_read() implies a READ_ONCE(), we must only
emit an extra smp_read_barrier_depends() in order to upgrade to
READ_ONCE_CTRL() semantics.

Requested-by: default avatarDmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150918115637.GM3604@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 62e8a325
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