From 3382290ed2d5e275429cef510ab21889d3ccd164 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Deacon Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 11:22:48 +0100 Subject: locking/barriers: Convert users of lockless_dereference() to READ_ONCE() [ Note, this is a Git cherry-pick of the following commit: 506458efaf15 ("locking/barriers: Convert users of lockless_dereference() to READ_ONCE()") ... for easier x86 PTI code testing and back-porting. ] READ_ONCE() now has an implicit smp_read_barrier_depends() call, so it can be used instead of lockless_dereference() without any change in semantics. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508840570-22169-4-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c index ae5615b03def..1c1eae961340 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ static void finalize_ldt_struct(struct ldt_struct *ldt) static void install_ldt(struct mm_struct *current_mm, struct ldt_struct *ldt) { - /* Synchronizes with lockless_dereference in load_mm_ldt. */ + /* Synchronizes with READ_ONCE in load_mm_ldt. */ smp_store_release(¤t_mm->context.ldt, ldt); /* Activate the LDT for all CPUs using current_mm. */ -- cgit v1.2.3