Re: [PATCH 2/3] vringh: kill off ACCESS_ONCE()

From: Cornelia Huck
Date: Thu Nov 24 2016 - 06:36:02 EST


On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 10:25:13 +0000
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Despite living under drivers/ vringh.c is also used as part of the userspace
> virtio tools. Before we can kill off the ACCESS_ONCE()definition in the tools,
> we must convert vringh.c to use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE().
>
> This patch does so, along with the required include of <linux/compiler.h> for
> the relevant definitions. The userspace tools provide their own definitions in
> their own <linux/compiler.h>.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> drivers/vhost/vringh.c | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@xxxxxxxxxx>