Commit 9c3cdc1f authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds

Move ACCESS_ONCE() to <linux/compiler.h>

It actually makes much more sense there, and we do tend to need it for
non-RCU usage too.  Moving it to <linux/compiler.h> will allow some
other cases that have open-coded the same logic to use the same helper
function that RCU has used.
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 3ed43c74
......@@ -182,4 +182,16 @@ extern void __chk_io_ptr(const volatile void __iomem *);
# define __section(S) __attribute__ ((__section__(#S)))
#endif
/*
* Prevent the compiler from merging or refetching accesses. The compiler
* is also forbidden from reordering successive instances of ACCESS_ONCE(),
* but only when the compiler is aware of some particular ordering. One way
* to make the compiler aware of ordering is to put the two invocations of
* ACCESS_ONCE() in different C statements.
*
* This macro does absolutely -nothing- to prevent the CPU from reordering,
* merging, or refetching absolutely anything at any time.
*/
#define ACCESS_ONCE(x) (*(volatile typeof(x) *)&(x))
#endif /* __LINUX_COMPILER_H */
......@@ -131,18 +131,6 @@ struct rcu_head {
*/
#define rcu_read_unlock_bh() __rcu_read_unlock_bh()
/*
* Prevent the compiler from merging or refetching accesses. The compiler
* is also forbidden from reordering successive instances of ACCESS_ONCE(),
* but only when the compiler is aware of some particular ordering. One way
* to make the compiler aware of ordering is to put the two invocations of
* ACCESS_ONCE() in different C statements.
*
* This macro does absolutely -nothing- to prevent the CPU from reordering,
* merging, or refetching absolutely anything at any time.
*/
#define ACCESS_ONCE(x) (*(volatile typeof(x) *)&(x))
/**
* rcu_dereference - fetch an RCU-protected pointer in an
* RCU read-side critical section. This pointer may later
......
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