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+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2019 Google LLC.
+ */
+#ifndef __ASM_RWONCE_H
+#define __ASM_RWONCE_H
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+
+#include <asm/barrier.h>
+
+/*
+ * Alpha is apparently daft enough to reorder address-dependent loads
+ * on some CPU implementations. Knock some common sense into it with
+ * a memory barrier in READ_ONCE().
+ *
+ * For the curious, more information about this unusual reordering is
+ * available in chapter 15 of the "perfbook":
+ *
+ *  https://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paulmck/perfbook/perfbook.html
+ *
+ */
+#define __READ_ONCE(x)							\
+({									\
+	__unqual_scalar_typeof(x) __x =					\
+		(*(volatile typeof(__x) *)(&(x)));			\
+	mb();								\
+	(typeof(x))__x;							\
+})
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
+
+#include <asm-generic/rwonce.h>
+
+#endif /* __ASM_RWONCE_H */