From 506458efaf153c1ea480591c5602a5a3ba5a3b76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Deacon Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 11:22:48 +0100 Subject: 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 Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508840570-22169-4-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/task_work.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/task_work.c') diff --git a/kernel/task_work.c b/kernel/task_work.c index 836a72a66fba..9a9f262fc53d 100644 --- a/kernel/task_work.c +++ b/kernel/task_work.c @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ task_work_cancel(struct task_struct *task, task_work_func_t func) * we raced with task_work_run(), *pprev == NULL/exited. */ raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&task->pi_lock, flags); - while ((work = lockless_dereference(*pprev))) { + while ((work = READ_ONCE(*pprev))) { if (work->func != func) pprev = &work->next; else if (cmpxchg(pprev, work, work->next) == work) -- cgit v1.2.3