Re: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 12/15] lib/assoc_array: Remove smp_read_barrier_depends()
From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Wed Oct 11 2017 - 13:14:51 EST
On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 10:06:31AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 06:54:05PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 09:47:48AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > Interesting. Do we currently have any dependencies headed by
> > > this_cpu_read()?
> >
> > Nope, but almost, look for: cpufreq_update_util_data.
>
> This, you mean?
>
> data = rcu_dereference_sched(*this_cpu_ptr(&cpufreq_update_util_data));
>
> True, a non-RCU dependency use case would want to use ACCESS_ONCE()
> in the new regime.
Right... s/ACCESS_ONCE()/READ_ONCE()/
Thanx, Paul