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percpu, locking: Revert ("percpu: Replace smp_read_barrier_depends() with lockless_dereference()")

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lockless_dereference() is planned to grow a sanity check to ensure
that the input parameter is a pointer.  __ref_is_percpu() passes in an
unsinged long value which is a combination of a pointer and a flag.
While it can be casted to a pointer lvalue, the casting looks messy
and it's a special case anyway.  Let's revert back to open-coding
READ_ONCE() and explicit barrier.

This doesn't cause any functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.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: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: kernel-team@fb.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20160522185040.GA23664@p183.telecom.by
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Tejun Heo 2016-05-25 16:11:57 -04:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 6e2814745c
commit ed8ebd1d51
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@ -136,14 +136,12 @@ static inline bool __ref_is_percpu(struct percpu_ref *ref,
* used as a pointer. If the compiler generates a separate fetch
* when using it as a pointer, __PERCPU_REF_ATOMIC may be set in
* between contaminating the pointer value, meaning that
* ACCESS_ONCE() is required when fetching it.
*
* Also, we need a data dependency barrier to be paired with
* smp_store_release() in __percpu_ref_switch_to_percpu().
*
* Use lockless deref which contains both.
* READ_ONCE() is required when fetching it.
*/
percpu_ptr = lockless_dereference(ref->percpu_count_ptr);
percpu_ptr = READ_ONCE(ref->percpu_count_ptr);
/* paired with smp_store_release() in __percpu_ref_switch_to_percpu() */
smp_read_barrier_depends();
/*
* Theoretically, the following could test just ATOMIC; however,