Re: [PATCH/RFC 7/7] kernel: Force ACCESS_ONCE to work only on scalar types
From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Nov 24 2014 - 14:14:49 EST
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Christian Borntraeger
<borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Looks really nice, but does not work with ACCESS_ONCE is on the left-hand side:
Oh, I forgot about that. And that was indeed why I had done that whole
helper macro originally, with ACCESS_ONCE() itself just being the
dereference of the pointer.
Duh.
Linus
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