READ_ONCE: Simplify implementations of {READ,WRITE}_ONCE()
The implementations of {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() suffer from a significant amount of indirection and complexity due to a historic GCC bug: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58145 which was originally worked around by 230fa253 ("kernel: Provide READ_ONCE and ASSIGN_ONCE"). Since GCC 4.8 is fairly vintage at this point and we emit a warning if we detect it during the build, return {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() to their former glory with an implementation that is easier to understand and, crucially, more amenable to optimisation. A side effect of this simplification is that WRITE_ONCE() no longer returns a value, but nobody seems to be relying on that and the new behaviour is aligned with smp_store_release(). Suggested-by:Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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