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authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2017-10-24 11:22:48 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-10-24 13:17:33 +0200
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locking/barriers: Convert users of lockless_dereference() to READ_ONCE()
READ_ONCE() now has an implicit smp_read_barrier_depends() call, so it can be used instead of lockless_dereference() without any change in semantics. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508840570-22169-4-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/dcache.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/dcache.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index f90141387f01..34c852af215c 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ static inline int dentry_cmp(const struct dentry *dentry, const unsigned char *c
{
/*
* Be careful about RCU walk racing with rename:
- * use 'lockless_dereference' to fetch the name pointer.
+ * use 'READ_ONCE' to fetch the name pointer.
*
* NOTE! Even if a rename will mean that the length
* was not loaded atomically, we don't care. The
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ static inline int dentry_cmp(const struct dentry *dentry, const unsigned char *c
* early because the data cannot match (there can
* be no NUL in the ct/tcount data)
*/
- const unsigned char *cs = lockless_dereference(dentry->d_name.name);
+ const unsigned char *cs = READ_ONCE(dentry->d_name.name);
return dentry_string_cmp(cs, ct, tcount);
}